What conditions favor high-potential entrepreneurship? Unpacking the nexus between the industrial structure and startup typologies
质疑创业越多创新增长越多的假设，利用经济复杂性和关联性概念，分析意大利2015-2019年面板数据，发现产业结构对不同类型高潜力创业的影响不同，对创新型企业有正面作用，对高增长企业有负面作用，对先驱企业无影响。
Abstract In this paper, we question the implicit assumption that more entrepreneurship drives more innovation and growth, asserting that specific typologies of entrepreneurship are responsible for these phenomena. A growing number of studies has analyzed this relationship while focusing on the overall level of entrepreneurship. This paper exploits recent advancements in measuring the sophistication and connectedness of economic systems, brought by the notions of economic complexity and relatedness, to study the nexus of industrial structure and high-potential forms of entrepreneurship. The present study uses a panel dataset for Italy for the period 2015–2019. The results show a differentiated pattern among the high-potential startups considered, with relatedness and complexity having a positive effect for innovative startups, a negative one for high-growth startups, and no effect for pioneers. These results inform potential entrepreneurs of the importance of analyzing how external conditions can have distinctive effects on the process of opportunity identification among different typologies of high-potential startups.