Edited by Mohammad Keyhani, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada, Tobias Kollmann, Professor of Digital Business and Digital Entrepreneurship, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Andishe Ashjari, Doctoral Candidate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada, Alina Sorgner, Assistant Professor of Applied Data Analytics, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy, Research Affiliate, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and Research Fellow, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) and Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Professor, Department of Management, Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, US

• Contents:PART I INTRODUCTION1 An introduction to digital entrepreneurship: concepts and themes 2Mohammad Keyhani, Andishe Ashjari, Alina Sorgner, Tobias Kollmann,Clyde Eiríkur Hull and Zahra JamshidiPART II DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEFINITIONS2 What is digital entrepreneurship? Fundamentals of company foundingin the digital economy 27Tobias Kollmann and Philipp Benedikt Jung3 Eras of digital entrepreneurship: connecting the past, present, and future 49Tobias Kollmann, Lucas Kleine-Stegemann, Katharina de Cruppe andChristina Strauss4 Exploring the field of digital entrepreneurship: a bibliometric analysis 74Eusebio Scornavacca, Tobias Kollmann, Stefano Za, Lucas Kleine-Stegemannand Christina StraussPART III DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEMS5 Measuring the digital platform economy 91Zoltan J. Acs, László Szerb, Abraham K. Song, Esteban Lafuente and Éva Komlósi6 The regional impacts of digitalization of work on entrepreneurship inthe United States 121Frank M. Fossen, Trevor McLemore and Alina SorgnerPART IV DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGIES7 Startup stacks: understanding the new landscape of digitalentrepreneurship technology 140Mohammad Keyhani8 Digital product-assisted learning: transforming entrepreneurial learningwith product usage analytics 161Varun NagarajPART V DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ADOPTION AND OUTCOMES9 Punching above their weight class: assessing how digital technologiesenhance new and small firm survival and competitiveness 181Franz T. Lohrke, Alexander B. Hamrick and Qiongrui (Missy) Yao10 Digital adoption in micro and small enterprise clusters: a dependencytheory study in Kenya 199Ben Mkalama, Giacomo Ciambotti and Bitange NdemoPART VI DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FINANCING11 Crowdfunding: a competency framework for creators 222Andishe Ashjari12 Backers: consumers or investors? Crowdfunding vs. traditionalfinancing as an optimal security design problem 236Anton Miglo13 Blockchain economy: the challenges and opportunities of initial coin offerings 256Bennet Schierstedt, Vincent Göttel and Lisa KleverPART VII DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL ISSUES14 Agentifying the body algorithmic: digital entrepreneurial agency andaccountability gaps 272Angela Martinez Dy15 Digital entrepreneurship in a rural context: the implications of therural–urban digital divide 291Paolo Gerli and Jason Whalley16 Data are the fuel for digital entrepreneurship — but what about data privacy? 306Wolfgang Koehler, Christian Schultz and Christoph RascheIndex

‘In an era where digital transformation is not just an option but a neces-sity for survival and growth, the Handbook of Digital Entrepreneurship, edited by Mohammad Keyhani, Tobias Kollmann, Andishe Ashjari, Alina Sorgner and Clyde Eiríkur Hull, emerges as a seminal work. This authoritative Handbook, published by Edward Elgar Publishing, provides an in-depth exploration of digital entrepreneurship, a field that has seen exponential growth and interest over the past few years. The relevance of this book in the present context cannot be overstated.’

Edited by Mohammad Keyhani, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada, Tobias Kollmann, Professor of Digital Business and Digital Entrepreneurship, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Andishe Ashjari, Doctoral Candidate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada, Alina Sorgner, Assistant Professor of Applied Data Analytics, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy, Research Affiliate, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and Research Fellow, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) and Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Professor, Department of Management, Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, US

• Contents:PART I INTRODUCTION1 An introduction to digital entrepreneurship: concepts and themes 2Mohammad Keyhani, Andishe Ashjari, Alina Sorgner, Tobias Kollmann,Clyde Eiríkur Hull and Zahra JamshidiPART II DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEFINITIONS2 What is digital entrepreneurship? Fundamentals of company foundingin the digital economy 27Tobias Kollmann and Philipp Benedikt Jung3 Eras of digital entrepreneurship: connecting the past, present, and future 49Tobias Kollmann, Lucas Kleine-Stegemann, Katharina de Cruppe andChristina Strauss4 Exploring the field of digital entrepreneurship: a bibliometric analysis 74Eusebio Scornavacca, Tobias Kollmann, Stefano Za, Lucas Kleine-Stegemannand Christina StraussPART III DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEMS5 Measuring the digital platform economy 91Zoltan J. Acs, László Szerb, Abraham K. Song, Esteban Lafuente and Éva Komlósi6 The regional impacts of digitalization of work on entrepreneurship inthe United States 121Frank M. Fossen, Trevor McLemore and Alina SorgnerPART IV DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGIES7 Startup stacks: understanding the new landscape of digitalentrepreneurship technology 140Mohammad Keyhani8 Digital product-assisted learning: transforming entrepreneurial learningwith product usage analytics 161Varun NagarajPART V DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ADOPTION AND OUTCOMES9 Punching above their weight class: assessing how digital technologiesenhance new and small firm survival and competitiveness 181Franz T. Lohrke, Alexander B. Hamrick and Qiongrui (Missy) Yao10 Digital adoption in micro and small enterprise clusters: a dependencytheory study in Kenya 199Ben Mkalama, Giacomo Ciambotti and Bitange NdemoPART VI DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FINANCING11 Crowdfunding: a competency framework for creators 222Andishe Ashjari12 Backers: consumers or investors? Crowdfunding vs. traditionalfinancing as an optimal security design problem 236Anton Miglo13 Blockchain economy: the challenges and opportunities of initial coin offerings 256Bennet Schierstedt, Vincent Göttel and Lisa KleverPART VII DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL ISSUES14 Agentifying the body algorithmic: digital entrepreneurial agency andaccountability gaps 272Angela Martinez Dy15 Digital entrepreneurship in a rural context: the implications of therural–urban digital divide 291Paolo Gerli and Jason Whalley16 Data are the fuel for digital entrepreneurship — but what about data privacy? 306Wolfgang Koehler, Christian Schultz and Christoph RascheIndex

‘In an era where digital transformation is not just an option but a neces-sity for survival and growth, the Handbook of Digital Entrepreneurship, edited by Mohammad Keyhani, Tobias Kollmann, Andishe Ashjari, Alina Sorgner and Clyde Eiríkur Hull, emerges as a seminal work. This authoritative Handbook, published by Edward Elgar Publishing, provides an in-depth exploration of digital entrepreneurship, a field that has seen exponential growth and interest over the past few years. The relevance of this book in the present context cannot be overstated.’

Edited by Mohammad Keyhani, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada, Tobias Kollmann, Professor of Digital Business and Digital Entrepreneurship, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Andishe Ashjari, Doctoral Candidate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada, Alina Sorgner, Assistant Professor of Applied Data Analytics, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy, Research Affiliate, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and Research Fellow, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) and Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Professor, Department of Management, Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, US

• Contents:PART I INTRODUCTION1 An introduction to digital entrepreneurship: concepts and themes 2Mohammad Keyhani, Andishe Ashjari, Alina Sorgner, Tobias Kollmann,Clyde Eiríkur Hull and Zahra JamshidiPART II DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEFINITIONS2 What is digital entrepreneurship? Fundamentals of company foundingin the digital economy 27Tobias Kollmann and Philipp Benedikt Jung3 Eras of digital entrepreneurship: connecting the past, present, and future 49Tobias Kollmann, Lucas Kleine-Stegemann, Katharina de Cruppe andChristina Strauss4 Exploring the field of digital entrepreneurship: a bibliometric analysis 74Eusebio Scornavacca, Tobias Kollmann, Stefano Za, Lucas Kleine-Stegemannand Christina StraussPART III DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEMS5 Measuring the digital platform economy 91Zoltan J. Acs, László Szerb, Abraham K. Song, Esteban Lafuente and Éva Komlósi6 The regional impacts of digitalization of work on entrepreneurship inthe United States 121Frank M. Fossen, Trevor McLemore and Alina SorgnerPART IV DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGIES7 Startup stacks: understanding the new landscape of digitalentrepreneurship technology 140Mohammad Keyhani8 Digital product-assisted learning: transforming entrepreneurial learningwith product usage analytics 161Varun NagarajPART V DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ADOPTION AND OUTCOMES9 Punching above their weight class: assessing how digital technologiesenhance new and small firm survival and competitiveness 181Franz T. Lohrke, Alexander B. Hamrick and Qiongrui (Missy) Yao10 Digital adoption in micro and small enterprise clusters: a dependencytheory study in Kenya 199Ben Mkalama, Giacomo Ciambotti and Bitange NdemoPART VI DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FINANCING11 Crowdfunding: a competency framework for creators 222Andishe Ashjari12 Backers: consumers or investors? Crowdfunding vs. traditionalfinancing as an optimal security design problem 236Anton Miglo13 Blockchain economy: the challenges and opportunities of initial coin offerings 256Bennet Schierstedt, Vincent Göttel and Lisa KleverPART VII DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL ISSUES14 Agentifying the body algorithmic: digital entrepreneurial agency andaccountability gaps 272Angela Martinez Dy15 Digital entrepreneurship in a rural context: the implications of therural–urban digital divide 291Paolo Gerli and Jason Whalley16 Data are the fuel for digital entrepreneurship — but what about data privacy? 306Wolfgang Koehler, Christian Schultz and Christoph RascheIndex

‘In an era where digital transformation is not just an option but a neces-sity for survival and growth, the Handbook of Digital Entrepreneurship, edited by Mohammad Keyhani, Tobias Kollmann, Andishe Ashjari, Alina Sorgner and Clyde Eiríkur Hull, emerges as a seminal work. This authoritative Handbook, published by Edward Elgar Publishing, provides an in-depth exploration of digital entrepreneurship, a field that has seen exponential growth and interest over the past few years. The relevance of this book in the present context cannot be overstated.’