There are significant differences between the Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in highly-developed economies compared to the ecosystems in lesser-developed economies and the literature on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EEs) is concentrated mainly on studies investigating more developed ecosystems with less evidence and understanding of ecosystem dynamics in regions with limited resources. Bringing together global scholars, it features empirical and conceptual studies from overlooked contexts, including Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, and Latino communities in the US. By exploring how diverse stakeholders interact and collaborate, this text provides both scholars and practitioners with insights to keep investigating and build the EE with novel and groundbreaking perspectives.
Allan Villegas-Mateos is a Senior Research Fellow of entrepreneurial ecosystem studies at HEC Paris in Qatar.Irery L. Melchor-Duran is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Business Sciences at Universidad Panamericana, Aguascalientes.Norris Krueger is actively studying entrepreneurial education and learning and entrepreneurial ecosystems, and is currently Visiting Professor for QREC, Kyushu, Japan.
Chapter 1. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Builders: Understudied Contexts and Concepts; Allan Villegas-Mateos, Irery L. Melchor-Duran, and Norris Krueger Part 1. Productive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Building Chapter 2. Top-Down Entrepreneur Support Process Design: A Framework for Resource-Constrained Ecosystems; Victor Schiller Chapter 3. From Top-Down to Bottom-Up to…? Ecosystem Building and Ecosystem Builders; Norris Krueger, Grace Belangia, C J Cornell, Scott Gillespie, Kimberly Gramm, Anand Macherla, and Beth Zimmer Part 2. Understudied Contexts and Concepts in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Chapter 4. Activities of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Actors to Foster Adaptive and Evolving Ecosystems; Irery L. Melchor-Duran and Araceli Alvarado Carrillo Chapter 5. Comparative Analysis of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Free Trade Zones and Non-Free Trade Zones; Cris Bravo Monge Chapter 6. Adapting to Ecosystem: How “Databits” Leveraged its Absorptive Capacity to Transform its Business Model during the COVID-19 Pandemic; Rosalía G. Castillo-Villar, Fernando Rey Castillo-Villar, and Griselda Dávila Aragón Chapter 7. Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Value Chain: Configurations Driving Entrepreneurial Dynamics for African Growth; Grégory Guéneau Chapter 8. Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of Creative Industries in Lehigh Valley: A Multi-level Framework Approach; Antigoni Papadimitriou, Nicholas John Scheri, Gibby DiCenso, Haoyu Yang, and Tyson Utesch Chapter 9. Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in New Settlement Communities: Insights for Latino Entrepreneurship Policy in Times of Change; Maria Figueroa-Armijos and Corinne Valdivia Chapter 10. Women Entrepreneurs in Creative Industries: An Ecosystem Perspective; Antigoni Papadimitriou, Theodore R. Alter, Andreea Kiss, and Karthick Sivakumar Chapter 11. Empowering Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Case Study of SoBigData RI’s Impact; Enrico Marcazzan, Saverio Barabuffi, Giulio Ferrigno, and Andrea Piccaluga Chapter 12. An Analysis of Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Oman: Developing and Empowering Startups; Ibrahim Issa Al Balushi and Trinette Fernandes