Global development agenda meets local opportunities: The rise of development-focused entrepreneurship support
研究基于美国、卢旺达和乌干达的定性数据，分析了国际发展组织如何通过构建个人资源渠道、本地生态系统能力和跨国基础设施来支持全球南方的社会影响型创业者，并探讨了由此产生的南北新依赖关系。
Emerging economies provide abundant opportunities for entrepreneurship with social impact, but they often lack the resources to support it. This dilemma has led to the emergence of “development-focused entrepreneurship support” (DFES), which is typically provided by development organizations in the Global North, and which targets impact-oriented entrepreneurs operating in the Global South. This study examines, based on rich qualitative data from the U.S., Rwanda and Uganda, how international DFES organizations (iDFESOs) support entrepreneurs. We show that iDFESOs link entrepreneurship support to development goals, and thereby make entrepreneurs part of development aid chains. Towards this end, iDFESOs build three interrelated support infrastructures – or “scaffolds”: individual resource channels, local ecosystem capacity, and transnational infrastructures. Findings have important implications for entrepreneurship and international development research, while also raising critical questions about new dependencies between Global North and Global South.