Inclusive or Exclusive? Diversity and Inclusion in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research

Éditeurs invités

• Riccardo Fini, Bologna University
• Susan Marlow, University of Nottingham
• Argyro Nikiforou, Technical University of Denmark
• Einar Rasmussen, Nord University
• Maija Renko, DePaul University
• Johan Wiklund, Syracuse University

Synthèse

The extant body of research exploring entrepreneurial ecosystems reveals significant variations across the globe regarding the nature and impact of such systems. Despite the recognition of such diversity, there is a notable bias in the literature towards how entrepreneurial ecosystems support technology entrepreneurship, high-growth start-ups, and scaled-up ventures within advanced economies with stable institutional contexts. As such, the prevailing debate largely ignores issues of diversity, inclusion, and exclusion; thus, there needs to be far greater recognition afforded to who benefit from the cultural, social, and material resources that ecosystems provide and the context-dependent networks upon which they are built.

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Thèmes proposés

• Defining and critically evaluating the meaning of an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem
• Illustrations and analyses of non-traditional entrepreneurial ecosystems
• How do characteristics such as gender, class, ethnicity, age, and race influence how entrepreneurs engage with and benefit from prevailing entrepreneurial ecosystems?
• How do individual characteristics and system attributes interact to arrive at inclusive and exclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem practices?
• How can the components and relationships of an ecosystem become more inclusive?
• Exploring the relationship between formal and informal elements of entrepreneurial ecosystems and their impact on diversity and inclusion
• Investigating and illustrating the role of stakeholders in promoting or constraining the diversity and inclusivity of entrepreneurial ecosystems
• How can entrepreneurs and other actors nurture an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem, and how does this affect entrepreneurial outputs and outcomes?
• Investigating the role of technology in making entrepreneurial ecosystems more or less inclusive
• What role do incubators, accelerators, and other related support organizations have in promoting or constraining inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems?
• How does the design of the physical infrastructure and space of an entrepreneurial ecosystem enhance or constrain inclusivity?
• Comparing and contrasting diverse forms of entrepreneurial ecosystem in differing contexts reaching beyond advanced economies
• How do prevailing institutional regulations and rules across differing regions and economies affect the operation of entrepreneurial ecosystems in terms of inclusivity and diversity?
• Exploring and critically evaluating the relationship between policy initiatives and inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems
• How do systemic shocks change the trajectories of entrepreneurial ecosystems in terms of inclusivity and diversity?
• Evaluating how the impacts of entrepreneurial ecosystems are measured and the implications of this for inclusivity and diversity
• How do entrepreneurial ecosystems conducive to inclusivity differ from normative ecosystems focusing on economic performance: are the economic and non-economic impacts complementary or contradictory?