Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Diffusion of Startups

Edited by Elias G. Carayannis, Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepeneurship, School of Business, George Washington University, US, Giovanni Battista Dagnino, Chair of Management and Professor of Digital Strategy, University of Rome LUMSA, Italy, Sharon Alvarez, Thomas W. Olofson Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, US and Rosario Faraci, Professor of Business Economics and Management, University of Catania, Italy

• Contents:1. Introduction: entrepreneurial ecosystems and the diffusion of startups Sharon Alvarez, Elias G. Carayannis, Giovanni Battista Dagnino and Rosario Faraci2. Mapping entrepreneurial ecosystems inquiry: a content analysis of the analysis of the literature and its implicationsAnna Minà and Giovanni Battista Dagnino3. Linking entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems: the case of AppCampus Llewellyn D.W. Thomas, Dmitry Sharapov and Erkko Autio4. Antecedents of firm-level entrepreneurship: how organizational design coordinates and controls the firm’s entrepreneurial ecosystem Nicolai J. Foss and Jacob Lyngsie5. Industry specificity and the effect of internal social capital in reward-based crowdfundingVincenzo Butticè and Massimo G. Colombo6. Accessing the creative ecosystem: evidence from UK fashion design micro enterprises Alison Rieple, Jonathan Gander, Paola Pisano, Adrian Haberberg and Emily Longstaff7. Business incubators and entrepreneurial networks: a methodology for assessing incubator effectiveness and performance Emanuele Parisi, Angelo Miglietta and Dario Peirone8. Towards “skarse” entrepreneurial ecosystems: using agent-based simulation of entrepreneurship to reveal what makes regions tick Elias G. Carayannis and Mike Provance9. Looking beyond the current status of the conversation on entrepreneurial ecosystems and the diffusion of startups: where do we go from here? Giovanni Battista Dagnino and Elias G. CarayannisIndex