Blueprint Silicon Valley? Explaining Idiosyncrasy of Startup Ecosystems

Thomas Baron () and Jörg Freiling
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Thomas Baron: University of Bremen

Problemy Zarzadzania, 2019, vol. 17, issue 81, 57-56

Abstract: The concept of startup ecosystems has received significant attention from policy makers, particularly in the hope of transferring Silicon Valley performance effects to their own region. Previous research emphasizes the need to consider the unique and distinctive nature of the specific regional ecosystem in focus when developing policies for ecosystem development without a thorough specification and theoretically founded explanations. In this article, we address this gap and develop propositions why each ecosystem is unique in nature by employing resource-based reasoning. The article concludes that ecosystems are highly idiosyncratic and are, therefore, inimitable and non-transferable to other regions due to working isolating mechanisms.

Keywords: startup ecosystem; idiosyncrasy; resource-based approaches (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 D85 L14 L26 O18 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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