Dear colleagues
If you have work in progress on the topics of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE) and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (SE), please consider submitting it to the Special Issue on "Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Quest for Sustainable Transitions", co-edited by:
· Bruno Fischer, Department of Science and Technology Policy & School of Applied Sciences, University of Campinas (Brazil)
· Ross Brown, University of St Andrews Business School (UK)
· Pelin Demirel, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London (UK)
· Gustavo Salati Moraes, School of Applied Sciences, University of Campinas (Brazil)
· Philip T. Roundy, University of Tennessee (Chattanooga)
· Erik Stam, Utrecht University School of Economics (The Netherlands) & Allan Gray Centre for Africa Entrepreneurship, Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
Submissions will open in November and close by December 15th, 2024.
The Special Issue welcomes contributions that address the dynamics of entrepreneurship-led sustainable innovation in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. A non-exhaustive list of research questions is presented below. This list provides a tentative guide that outlines some of the key issues involved in debates concerning how Entrepreneurial Ecosystems can become more efficient structures in driving sustainable industrial transitions through innovative products, processes, and business models that generate positive impacts for the economy, the environment, and society.
- What is unique about the Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE) that support sustainable transitions? What are the key components of these EE? How are these EEs the same as or different from 'conventional' EE?
- How and to what extent do digital transformations affect the dynamics of sustainable transitions in EE?
- What are the ecosystem-level attributes that make some EE fertile environments for innovation-driven sustainable transitions? What makes these EEs effective (i.e., able to support high levels of sustainable entrepreneurship)? Through which processes (and by which incentives) are social and environmental values co-created in EE?
- How do evolutionary trajectories of EE affect the propensity to generate significant levels of innovation-driven sustainable entrepreneurship?
- What are the EE voids (e.g. institutional, financial, market-related) that hinder the emergence of sustainable innovations? How can policy address such challenges?
- How are innovation networks formed and orchestrated in EE to promote sustainable transitions? Who are the leaders and enablers of the EE that support sustainable transitions, how do community leaders improve EE, and do these EE "builders" face unique opportunities and challenges?
- How does sustainable entrepreneurship depend on the availability of specific EE actors, such as local entrepreneurship support organizations (e.g., green incubators, accelerators) and types of investors (e.g., impact investors)? How are these EE actors organized across territories, i.e., the spatial topology of EE configurations that enable sustainable transitions based on innovation-driven entrepreneurship (local/regional/national/international)?
- What specific strategies do sustainable entrepreneurs use to draw resources from their EE? How do sustainable entrepreneurs leverage their local startup communities?
- What are the theories that can inform our understanding of the interface between EE, innovation and sustainable transitions?
- How do national, regional and global governance systems interact with sustainable EE?
More information about the Special Issue can be found online: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/industry-and-innovation-entrepreneurial-ecosystems-and-the-quest-for-sustainable-transitions/
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Best regards
Alessandra Perri and Vera Rocha
Co-Editors-in-Chief, Industry and Innovation
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Vera Rocha
Copenhagen Business School
Kilevej
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