Figuring it out: configurations of high-performing entrepreneurial ecosystems in Europe
运用定性比较分析,识别欧洲区域创业生态系统的配置,检验两种竞争性因果逻辑:完备性逻辑(所有要素必须存在)与可替代性逻辑(要素可相互替代),发现高创业产出可通过不同配置实现,但最高产出区域仍依赖完备的生态系统。
Is there only one type of successful entrepreneurial ecosystem? This paper applies qualitative comparative analysis to identify and analyse configurations of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems in Europe. We test two rivalling causal logics: a completeness logic stating that all entrepreneurial ecosystem elements need to be present and the weakest link is the most important constraint, and a substitutability logic arguing that elements are substitutable. High entrepreneurship outputs can be realised with different entrepreneurial ecosystem configurations. However, focusing on regions with the highest entrepreneurship outputs, our results point at the importance of a complete entrepreneurial ecosystem.