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Accelerators as start-up infrastructure for entrepreneurial clusters
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal, Vol.31(1-2), pp.133-149
2019
Abstract
Infrastructure is commonly conceptualized as a set of facilities that play a critical role in facilitating activities by individuals and organizations. Conventionally, infrastructure is tightly linked to publicly funded projects that facilitate access to key resources and enable diverse activities. Within entrepreneurial clusters research, infrastructure includes universities, research institutions and telecommunication technologies that facilitate entrepreneurial activities. These capital-intensive investments seek to facilitate start-ups emergence by aiding access to markets and development of ideas. Accelerators facilitate the same activities and have only recently been conceptualized as start-up infrastructure. This study builds upon this research stream by elaborating on how accelerators can play this meaningful role at the cluster level. Specifically, and by relying on the analysis of empirical evidence from three distinct studies, we uncover how accelerators provide tangible and intangible dimensions of start-up infrastructure to form a positively reinforcing cycle of entrepreneurial activities. Additionally, our findings allow us to push further the idea that start-up infrastructure development can be an endogenous process involving multiple actors within the cluster. Our empirical findings and the theoretical insights derived from themhave meaningful mplications for the aforementioned literature, as well as start-up practitioners and policymakers linked to the funding of entrepreneurial clusters.
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- Title
- Accelerators as start-up infrastructure for entrepreneurial clusters
- Authors
- Martin Bliemel (Author) - University of Technology, SydneyRicardo Flores (Author) - University of VictoriaSaskia De Klerk (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawMorgan P Miles (Author) - Charles Sturt University
- Publication details
- Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal, Vol.31(1-2), pp.133-149
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2019
- DOI
- 10.1080/08985626.2018.1537152
- ISSN
- 0898-5626
- Copyright note
- This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Entrepreneurship & Regional Development on 24 Oct 2018, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2018.1537152. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; USC Business School - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451233202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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