The importance of an entrepreneurial ecosystem for creating systemic entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Amazon rainforest and Silicon Valley (Part 1)
So what do the Amazon Rainforest and Silicon Valley have to do with each other? On face value, not a great deal. However, when we explore them at a deeper level, together they show us a lot about the importance... Read More →
From Warfare to Families: Lessons from Punk Rock and Craft Beer Ecosystems
Traditional understandings of entrepreneurial ecosystems, often driven by underpinnings in economic theory, and business strategy, have tended to highlight drivers such as the individual pursuit of profit, competition, and the need for instrumental, commercial, rational exchanges between organizations. Key players... Read More →
A Blessing of Unicorns
Three facts: a herd of unicorns is called a blessing, Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn, and a unicorn can also mean a startup valued at over 1 billion USD. Given these facts, it was pretty much impossible not to... Read More →
The Rise of Citypreneurs
Entrepreneurship is back to cities, the evidence is clear, the action is no longer in tech clusters, but in the middle of cities such as New York, San Francisco, Boston, Austin, London or Berlin. The ones that are not fully... Read More →
Family Businesses and Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
All entrepreneurship ecosystems require a supply pipeline of people willing and able to create and exploit opportunities, take risks and look to grow businesses. To that end we often (rightly) look at universities as the sources of such entrepreneurs when... Read More →
Ecosystems: What do you know?
The term ecosystem has become a buzzword widely used by researchers and practitioners. It is applied to a variety of related, yet distinct concepts in the areas of management, strategy and entrepreneurship. These include innovation ecosystems that are centered around... Read More →