Abstract
Is there only one type of successful entrepreneurial ecosystem? This paper applies qualitative comparative analysis to identify and analyse configurations of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems in Europe. We test two rivalling causal logics: a completeness logic stating that all entrepreneurial ecosystem elements need to be present and the weakest link is the most important constraint, and a substitutability logic arguing that elements are substitutable. High entrepreneurship outputs can be realised with different entrepreneurial ecosystem configurations. However, focusing on regions with the highest entrepreneurship outputs, our results point at the importance of a complete entrepreneurial ecosystem.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1096–1110 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Regional Studies |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 26 Jul 2023 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Funding
This research was partly funded by the TNO~, The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research.
| Funders |
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| TNO~, The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research |
Keywords
- entrepreneurial ecosystem
- entrepreneurship
- qualitative comparative analysis
- regional configurations
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