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2 - Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

An Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2021

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan  and
Susan Clark Muntean
Banu Ozkazanc-Pan
Affiliation:
Brown University, Rhode Island
Susan Clark Muntean
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Asheville
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Summary

The second chapter concentrates on the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems, providing various ways to conceptualize and define it and then moving on to discuss its importance for supporting economic development. Given the growing body of work on entrepreneurial ecosystems, the chapter first outlines how the field of entrepreneurial ecosystems evolved from existing work on clusters and carries much of its assumptions around homogeneity of actors. In contrast to these assumptions, we demonstrate that actors are not homogenous but heterogeneous and that existing concepts of entrepreneurial ecosystems do not differentiate among entrepreneurs as actors within ecosystems. These arguments are further elaborated on with evidence in the chapters that follow.

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clusterstransaction cost economicsinstitutionsintitutional theoryecosystems
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
A Gender Perspective
 , pp. 29 - 61
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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