Abstract
Insights from analysing accelerators as entrepreneurial micro-ecosystems
2019 Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange Handbook, p.22
Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange (ACERE), 2019 (Sydney, Australia, 05-Feb-2019 - 08-Feb-2019)
2019
Abstract
Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) have been characterised by abstract or aggregated elements that interact to produce entrepreneurial outcomes. This aggregation is convenient because studying individual actors, interactions and outcomes for such complex systems is empirically difficult. However, the aggregation simultaneously limits our ability to study how EEs generate entrepreneurial outcomes as a consequence of the actions and interactions of actors who represent these aggregated elements. To work around the empirical challenge of surveying entire ecosystems or even a representative set of actors in an ecosystem, this study focusses on a temporally and spatially limited ecosystem. This study posits that accelerators are EEs, albeit entrepreneurial micro-ecosystems, which are analogous to the petri dish version of EEs. This study then adopts an EE lens and uses a mixed-methods approach to (1) explore the social and temporal boundaries of EEs, (2) illustrate the generative interactions between actors in EEs; thereby (3) revealing how EEs are maintained.
Details
- Title
- Insights from analysing accelerators as entrepreneurial micro-ecosystems
- Authors
- Martin Bliemel (Author) - University of Technology SydneySaskia De Klerk (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - USC Business SchoolRicardo Flores (Author) - University of Victoria
- Publication details
- 2019 Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange Handbook, p.22
- Conference details
- Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange (ACERE), 2019 (Sydney, Australia, 05-Feb-2019 - 08-Feb-2019)
- Publisher
- Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; USC Business School - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450786402621
- Output Type
- Abstract
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