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    Examining the Connections within the Startup Ecosystem: A Case Study of St. Louis

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    2017-01-01
    Author
    Motoyama, Yasuyuki
    Knowlton, Karren
    Publisher
    De Gruyter
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    We critically examine how an entrepreneurial ecosystem is structured using an exploratory and bottom-up approach. Past studies in this area have discussed the presence of elements in the system or captured the ecosystem as holistically as possible by extending to social, cultural, and institutional dimension. However, we find that such aggregated conceptualizations gave limited understanding to how different elements are connected and constitute the system. Here, we apply a social network approach by analyzing the connections of the ecosystem at multiple layers: (1) among entrepreneurs, (2) among support organizations, and (3) between and among entrepreneurs and key support organizations. Through a series of interviews with entrepreneurs and support organizations in St. Louis, we find that the ways in which support organizations in this region interacted with each other and with entrepreneurs, including explicit cross-organizational collaboration and strategic structuring of resources, significantly impacted the way that entrepreneurs interacted with one another and with organizations, thus deepening our understanding of these connections and identifying intervening points within the ecosystem.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27665
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2016-0011
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    Motoyama, Y., Knowlton, K., (2017). Examining the Connections within the Startup Ecosystem: A Case Study of St. Louis. Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2016-0011.

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