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The question Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research: Where Are We Now and How Do We Move Forward is answered. Innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems currently attract significant attention from both scholars and practitioners. These concepts have gained prominence due to the exponentia...

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Published inTechnology innovation management review Vol. 8; no. 7; pp. 52 - 57
Main Authors Ritala, Paavo, Gustafsson, Robin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ottawa Talent First Network 01.07.2018
Subjects
Ambiguity
Collaboration
Connectivity
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Formulations
Innovations
Knowledge management
Metaphor
Research methodology
Social networks
System theory
Finland
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Summary:The question Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research: Where Are We Now and How Do We Move Forward is answered. Innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems currently attract significant attention from both scholars and practitioners. These concepts have gained prominence due to the exponential growth of data, information, and knowledge, related collaboration and coordination needs of diverse organizations and individuals, as well as the adoption of technologies that can facilitate the connectivity of multi-actor ecosystems. While the field has progressed considerably particularly in recent years, researchers are still discussing and debating the suitability of the proposed conceptual and empirical approaches. Conceptual ambiguity is a major challenge for innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems research, given its close resemblance to other network or system-level concepts such as interorganizational networks, clusters, geographical regions, systems, or platforms (see, e.g., Adner, 2017). This ambiguity crops up across the research field in heterogeneous formulations of the concept, and it is causing difficulties in establishing a coherent research program.
ISSN:1927-0321