Lunch Seminar in presence

Building BL26/B – Room 0.19 (ground floor)
Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
Via R. Lambruschini, 4/B

Christina Theodoraki
TBS Education, France

Abstract:

Despite the growing interest in the concept of an ecosystem among researchers, practitioners, and governments, there remains a partial (and even limited) understanding of how to build a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem that fits different contexts, countries, populations, or industries. This research presentation aims to shed light on this little-known concept and advance the discussion on territorial and international ecosystem dynamics by drawing on current working papers and publications. To achieve this, the presentation will support a mindshift in entrepreneurial ecosystem research at the intersection of configuration, strategic and international perspectives, based on the current research publications. Specifically, although entrepreneurial ecosystem research has mainly been studied through a configurational approach that describes its systemic composition, current research advances argue that the entrepreneurial ecosystem may reflect a strategic behavior or even a mindset. This stream of literature will argue that entrepreneurial ecosystems could reflect complementary strategic behaviors that extend across geographical boundaries. Finally, the presentation will share research opportunities, special issues, and conferences in order to build bridges for future research collaborations.

Christina Theodoraki is an Associate professor in entrepreneurship at TBS Education, affiliate professor at the International University of Monaco, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Development Strategies at Indiana University and Business Development Manager at the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Network. She also leads the Babson
Collaborative Research Group on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. She is Editor of Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal, Associate Editor of Journal of Small Business Management and member of the associate editorial boards of Review of Managerial Science, Entrepreneurship Research Journal, Journal of Enterprising Communities and Journal of the Knowledge Economy. Her research interests include entrepreneurial ecosystems, entrepreneurial support, and interorganizational strategies with a focus on business incubators. Her research has been published in journals such as Small Business Economics, Journal of Business Research, European Management Review, Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, The Journal of Technology Transfer, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business etc.

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