Inclusive High-Growth Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Fostering Female Entrepreneurs' Participation in Incubator and Accelerator Programs

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xaver Neumeyer
Keyword(s):  
High Growth ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Understanding Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sachin A Meshram ◽  
A. M. Rawani
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Small Business Growth

Entrepreneurial ecosystems are a strategy that is designed to nurture economic development by promoting entrepreneurship, small business growth, and innovation. Ecosystems represent a new direction for entrepreneurship research that simultaneously increases knowledge of the complex contextual environments surrounding the entrepreneurship process, while at the same time providing useful contributions to policy debates around the role of high-growth entrepreneurship as a driver of regional economic development. This article reviews the concept evolution; different definitions and factors of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Additionally, it provides approaches of past contributions about entrepreneurial ecosystem. This article contributes to knowledge generation and provides further research directions. This study is an attempt to cover the different articles that exist on the entrepreneurial ecosystems.

scholarly journals Exploring the Governance of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Productive High Growth

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Marta Gancarczyk ◽  
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Sławomir Konopa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Clustering ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Configurational Approach ◽  
Taxonomic Analysis ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Different Types

This paper aims to empirically identify the characteristics and governance types of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) associated with productive high-growth entrepreneurship (PHGE). We developed a unique database comprised of public statistics on high-growth enterprises and regional EEs in Poland over the course of 2011–2018. The Hierarchical Clustering on Principal Components and a taxonomic analysis were used to identify how different types of EE governance relate to varying levels of high-growth enterprises’ performance. We have identified and described the relationships between PHGE and diverse clusters of EE governance and evolution stages toward developed structures. Two clusters proved similarly effective in generating PHGE and they represent alternative EE governance solutions as well as the most advanced evolutionary phases. The proposed conceptualizations of productive high-growth entrepreneurship and EE governance types advance the understanding and measurement of these phenomena. The profiling and configurational approach adopted in this research reflects the heterogeneity of EE governance types and outcomes and can be further replicated in other research settings.

Regional capability emergence in an entrepreneurial ecosystem

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-383
Author(s):  
Kevin Walsh
Keyword(s):  
High Growth ◽  
Hub And Spoke ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Regional Resilience ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Internet Firms ◽  
Satellite Platform ◽  
Growth Firms ◽  
Institutional Capital ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Entrepreneurial ecosystems offer an approach to analyse the evolution and resilience of a region by placing the emphasis on the interactions that occur between entrepreneurs and the supporting regional resources. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the transformation of a region with high-growth firms to identify the coordinating structures that evolve in response to entrepreneurial recycling of resources. Design/methodology/approach This study uses network analysis to explore the scaling capability network of leaders in Dublin’s high-growth IT firms over a 15-year period. Findings After a gestation period of 10 years, leaders displayed prior experience from an initial entrant. Towards the end of the study period, numerous well-connected internet firms arose providing a structure resilient to exogenous and endogenous shocks. Research limitations/implications The findings suggest that the region’s structure changed from a satellite platform to a “hub and spoke” type district, and is showing signs of becoming a Marshallian type district, although the analysis is limited to regional knowledge capital through leadership mobility and does not consider the financial, social or institutional capital described in the entrepreneurial ecosystems literature. Practical implications Policy that aims to create regional resilience but minimise the scope of intervention needed can encourage the introduction of an anchor firm to a region and can complement this initiative with regional capability accumulation through labour policies that encourage resource recycling and minimise human capital leakage. Originality/value This contributes to an understanding of how entrepreneurial ecosystems evolve and the structure of the supporting resources that lead to increased regional resilience.

scholarly journals The heterogeneous landscape of innovation in female led-businesses – cross-country comparisons

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 610-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adina Filculescu
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Public Support ◽  
High Growth ◽  
International Programs ◽  
Female Entrepreneurship ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Female led-businesses are nowadays regarded as a vehicle for worldwide economic and social wellbeing. Seen as a mechanism for better social inclusion, empowerment, wide institutional change and local economic development, female entrepreneurship has been the focus of many scholarly pursuits. However, one field in which the interest in female-led businesses has been somewhat overlooked and overshadowed by other topics is the field of innovation studies. There are various national and international programs meant to increase the level of innovativeness of female-led businesses and there are reports presenting somewhat contradictory results in which women business owners are portrayed either as more innovative or at a disadvantage when it comes to the resources needed for innovation in comparison to their male counterparts. Thus, this study seeks to disentangle the various aspects which affect the landscape of innovation in female led-businesses by focusing on the way in which the national contexts creates opportunities or barriers for innovation. Based on the qualitative data provided by the GEM 2012 Adult Population Survey, we show that, in the case of the six countries included in the sample, the landscape is highly heterogeneous and that macrolevel indicators such as percentage of female entrepreneurs, public support for high growth female entrepreneurship and gender equality are not capable of fully explaining the innovation behavior of female-led businesses. The results presented here contribute to advancing the research on innovation and female entrepreneurship by opening up new avenues for research which will renounce the paradigm of an ideal type of female-led business, and start to seriously take into consideration the heterogeneity of these businesses and of the landscapes in which they operate.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial ecosystems in cities: The role of institutions

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0247609
Author(s):  
David Bruce Audretsch ◽  
Maksim Belitski ◽  
Nataliia Cherkas
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Institutional Arrangement ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Practical Implications

Entrepreneurship activity varies significantly across cities. We use the novel data for 1,652 ecosystem actors across sixteen cities in nine developing and transition economies during 2018–2019 to examine the role that institutional context plays in facilitating the productive entrepreneurship and reducing the unproductive entrepreneurship. This study is the first to develop and test a model of multi-dimensional institutional arrangements in cities. It demonstrates that not just that institutions matter in shaping the entrepreneurship ecosystem in cities, but in particular those institutional arrangements enhancing the productive and reducing unproductive entrepreneurship. Our findings suggest that differences between normative, cognitive, and regulatory pillars are associated with variance in both types of entrepreneurship in cities. For the formation of productive and high-growth entrepreneurs, all three pillars of institutional arrangement matter. For unproductive entrepreneurship normative pillar of institutions and the role of civil society matter most. This study has theoretical and practical implications for entrepreneurship ecosystem policy in cities.

scholarly journals Competencies associated with growth of women-led SMEs

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siwan Mitchelmore ◽  
Jennifer Rowley ◽  
Edward Shiu
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
High Turnover ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
Entrepreneurial Competencies

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the entrepreneurial competencies that women SME owners perceive to be important to the success of their business, and the competencies that women with high turnover growth rate deem important, and makes a comparison between the two sets of competencies. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire-based survey of female entrepreneurs in England and Wales collected data on those entrepreneurial competencies that women perceived to be important for their business, alongside key business performance measures, such as turnover growth rate. A ranking of the top ten competencies that women thought were important for success was generated; this ranking was compared with a list of four competencies identified as being important by those women whose businesses exhibited high business growth. Findings – All of the competencies perceived by the whole group to be important to the success of their business were personal and relational competencies. This is in stark contrast to the findings from logistic regression, which shows that high-growth businesses can be differentiated from low-growth businesses regarding the importance assigned to the following four competencies by their owners: pro-activeness, strategic planning and implementation for opportunities, acquiring finance, and risk-taking. Originality/value – This study suggests that women business owners’ prioritisation of the key competencies for their business may impact on business growth, and raises the question as to whether women business owners are able to identify the competencies that will drive the growth of their business. The particular contribution of this study is this gap, which poses challenges for policy makers, practitioners, and researchers.

scholarly journals Wishful Thinking versus Reality: High-growth Aspirations of Start-ups and Established Entrepreneurs in ASEAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Guelich
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Growth Firms ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
Start Ups

Most enterprises in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are micro and small enterprises. Few have aspirations to “dream big.” From an economic perspective, high-growth firms provide many benefits. This empirical study explores both country-level contextual factors such as country competitiveness or innovativeness and individual-level factors associated with high-growth, such as an entrepreneur’s market expansion plans, new product perceptions, export orientation and use of latest technologies. In this context, we investigate whether to “dream big” is associated with specific strategic intentions and which influencing factors hinder or foster aspirations to grow the business by more than 20 employees within five years while developing it into an established business. Utilising random sampling of data in six ASEAN countries, collected in the years 2013 to 2015 and comparing male to female entrepreneurs, the regression results of this empirical study show that although high growth-oriented entrepreneurs in both start-ups and established enterprises account for only 2.7% of all enterprises in this study, high-growth aspirations can only partially be sustained by early-stage entrepreneurs into the next business phase since it depends on several factors: (1) receiving funding (for both genders); (2) being export oriented (for male entrepreneurs); and (3) perceptions of having new products or services to offer to the market (for women entrepreneurs). Both genders are less prone to pursue their initial early-stage growth goals as established entrepreneurs. We infer that established entrepreneurs gain more clarity on the deployment of growth through implementation in the organisation while running their businesses and therefore may be more realistic in their predictions or less confident in their pursuit of ambitious goals.

scholarly journals Examining the cohesiveness and nestedness entrepreneurial ecosystems: evidence from British FinTechs

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Spigel
Keyword(s):  
High Growth ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Management Teams ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Substantial Evidence ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
History Data ◽  
Know How ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Research Gap

Abstract It is not clear if entrepreneurial ecosystems are cohesive wholes within a region that support high-growth entrepreneurship across a variety of sectors or if ecosystems are made up of several, nested sectoral-specific sub-ecosystems. This debate speaks to larger disagreements about what entrepreneurial ecosystems are and how they work. This paper addresses this research gap by using a novel methodology based on career history data of founders and top management teams of high-growth FinTech ventures. This method is used to classify the backgrounds of 1,570 individuals in 380 British FinTech firms based on their prior job histories and employers into categories such as technology or finance. The paper finds substantial evidence of nestedness in the ecosystems, but rather than FinTech ecosystems being specialized finance or technology clusters, more generic forms of managerial know-how remain crucial to firm innovation and growth. This suggests that even very advanced ecosystems remain nested, with few cross-over points between different communities.

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