Circular Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

Edited by João J. Ferreira, Full Professor of Management, Department of Management and Economics, Universidade da Beira Interior and NECE – Research Centre for Business Sciences, Portugal and QUT – Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, Brisbane, Australia, Magnus Klofsten, Professor, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden and David Urbano, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Business and Centre for Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Research (CREIS), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

• ContentsForeword1 Circular entrepreneurship ecosystems: an overview 1João J. Ferreira, Magnus Klofsten and David Urbano 2 Sustainable and circular entrepreneurship ecosystems from an institutional approach: a systematic literature review 11 Carolin Maaßen and David Urbano 3 The need for a systemic entrepreneurial solution to the sustainability challenge; evidence from the Welsh circular economy and beyond 41 David A. Kirby and Felicity Healey-Benson 4 Circular new ventures: overcoming their liabilities of newness 59 Wisdom Kanda, Dzamila Bienkowska and Magnus Klofsten 5 Integrated framework for sustainable and inclusive development through Circular Efficacious Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystems 77 Elias G. Carayannis, Evangelos Grigoroudis, Pantelis C. Kostis, Theodora Valvi and Kyriaki I. Kafka 6 Sustainable entrepreneurship education in circular entrepreneurship ecosystems 97 Ziad El-Awad Awad, Jonas Gabrielsson and Diamanto Politis 7 Aligning actors and action via a method for Systemic Problem-Solution Assessment (SProSA): the case of circular ecosystems 117 Anna Margolis and Fenna Blomsma 8 Empowering circular economies: unveiling the dynamics of social business models in rural Sri Lanka 153 Chanaka Wijewardena and Hussain G. Rammal 9 Circular economy dynamics and country clusters: evidence for European countries 177 Ewa Lechman and Magdalena Popowska 10 Entrepreneurial ways of designing sustainable smartphones: towards effectual born-circular ventures and business models 215 Ines P. Junge and Yangyang Zhao 11 Unlocking circular potential: the influence of personality traits on university students’ circular entrepreneurial attitude and intention 259 João M. Lopes, Sofia Gomes, Micaela Pinho and João J. Ferreira 12 Public entrepreneurship: a case study of new strategies, eco-innovation, and SDGs 289 Fernando Castelló-Sirvent, Eduard Farran-Teixidó and Marta Peris-Ortiz

‘This book on circular entrepreneurship ecosystems is at the crossroads of three popular areas of research: circular economy, sustainability and entrepreneurship ecosystems. Making an attempt to address important issues and challenges our societies are confronted with, this more than needed book is bringing a clear picture of a state-of-the-art of research at the intersection of these domains and opening new and interesting avenues for future research. As stated by the editors and we agree with them: “This book serves as a catalyst for researchers and policymakers to further explore the theory of entrepreneurship ecosystems within the framework of the circular economy”. In other words, it tries to answer the key question: to which extent the concept of entrepreneurship ecosystem could be theorized and applied to make our world more sustainable, in particular in the context of circular economy?’