Digital Entrepreneurship by Ronny Baierl & Judith Behrens & Alexander Brem

Author:Ronny Baierl & Judith Behrens & Alexander Brem
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030201388
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

2 Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

It is difficult to find a more popular word in business and management discussions than ecosystems. The concepts of innovation ecosystems and entrepreneurial ecosystems are often used in business and policy discussions. It appeared as a new term to discuss about the necessary actors and relationships in order to have innovation and/or entrepreneurship in a region (Ritala and Almpanopoulou 2017).

From a research perspective, the increasing popularity of the term raised some questions from scholars. One of the strongest critiques is the recent piece by Oh et al. (2016) that questions why the prefix eco- is used; the authors argue that most innovation ecosystems are not natural emerging systems but instead driven by key actors that push forward the innovation. The basic definition of an innovation ecosystem as a diverse group of organizations that co-evolve and co-create value (Adner and Kapoor 2010) can be ambiguous, in particular if we compare it with other existing concepts such as clusters or regional innovation systems (RIS).

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