Janna Alvedalen: A critical review of entrepreneurial ecosystems research

Описание: Abstract
The entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) literature has attracted much attention, especially in policy circles. However, the concept suffers from a number of shortcomings: (1) it lacks a clear analytical
framework that makes explicit what is cause and what is effect in an EE; (2) while being a systemic concept, the EE has not yet fully exploited insights from network theory, and it is not always clear
in what way the proposed elements are connected in an EE; (3) it remains a challenge what institutions (and at what spatial scale) impact on the structure and performance of EE; (4) studies have often focused on the EE in single regions or clusters, but lack a comparative and multi-scalar perspective and (5) the EE literature tends to provide a static framework taking a snapshot of EE
without considering systematically their evolution over time. For each of these shortcomings, we make a number of suggestions to take up in future research on EE.

Reference
Janna Alvedalen & Ron Boschma (2017), A critical review of entrepreneurial
ecosystems research: towards a future research agenda, European Planning Studies, 25:6,
887-903, DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2017.1299694

Researcher
Janna Alvedalen
Doctor in Innovation Enginnering
Lund University