From knowledge to business ecosystems: emergence of an entrepreneurial activity during knowledge replication

Amel Attour () and Nathalie Lazaric
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Amel Attour: Université Côté d’Azur, CNRS, GREDEG

Small Business Economics, 2020, vol. 54, issue 2, No 13, 575-587

Abstract: Abstract Our article emphasizes the relationship between knowledge and business ecosystems. Transformation of a knowledge ecosystem can lead to the emergence of a technological platform embodying a business ecosystem and providing the resources required especially for firm startup. The role of knowledge replication in an innovation ecosystem is identified through exploratory research and a qualitative case study in the technology hotspot of Sophia-Antipolis. Our findings provide evidence of a new technological trajectory in near-field communication ecosystems resulting from a radical transformation of traditional knowledge ecosystems. We show that the role of a knowledge filter is reduced by some public actors and universities acting as the “tenant anchor” and accelerating the replication of knowledge, and the resolution of intellectual property rights issues in emergent business ecosystems. We highlight the critical role of a public actor in enabling the emergence and creation of a business ecosystem, and its involvement in this entrepreneurial activity.

Keywords: Knowledge ecosystem; Entrepreneurial opportunities; Technological platform; Knowledge replication; Academic actor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L21 L26 L86 M13 M21 O21 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11187-018-0035-3

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