The Relational Organization of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
提出创业生态系统由10种文化、社会和物质属性构成,这些属性之间的关系维持了生态系统,并通过加拿大滑铁卢和卡尔加里的案例展示了不同配置。
Entrepreneurial ecosystems have emerged as a popular concept to explain the persistence of high–growth entrepreneurship within regions. However, as a theoretical concept ecosystems remain underdeveloped, making it difficult to understand their structure and influence on the entrepreneurship process. The article argues that ecosystems are composed of 10 cultural, social, and material attributes that provide benefits and resources to entrepreneurs and that the relationships between these attributes reproduce the ecosystem. This model is illustrated with case studies of Waterloo, Ontario, and Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The cases demonstrate the variety of different configurations that ecosystems can take.