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Unlocking Africa’s Entrepreneurial Potential: A Novel Data-Driven Approach to Ecosystem Development

Unlocking Africa's Entrepreneurial Potential: A Novel Data-Driven Approach to Ecosystem Development

Release of OSE's first white paper, presenting a data-driven framework to unlock Africa's entrepreneurial potential.

Networks as Catalysts of Entrepreneurial Dynamics in Low-Income Territories : A Case Study of Five African Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

What distinguishes an entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) that supports entrepreneurial dynamics from one that does not? Despite being a hot issue, several scholars address the paucity of empirical studies that attempt to explain the overall functioning of EEs. To provide this perspec

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Winter School 2025 – Bilbao

The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Winter School brings together scholars to discuss academic advancements in the emerging research field of entrepreneurial ecosystems (see e.g. Stam 2015; Wurth et al. 2019; Theodoraki 2024). Early-career scholars, including PhD candidates, a

Networks as Catalysts of Entrepreneurial Dynamics in Low-Income Territories

Novel study of interorganizational network among EE actors at the national level in five low-income African nations using web scraping, quantitative graph theory, and QCA.

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Winter School 2025 — Bilbao

Three-day Research Winter School in Bilbao bringing together scholars on entrepreneurial ecosystems, hosted by Universidad del País Vasco with GEM and EERS.

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Spring School 2024, Stuttgart

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Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Spring School 2024 — Stuttgart

Spring School in Stuttgart hosted by the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Science with 80+ specialized scholars.

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Summer School 2023, Paris

This Summer School aims to provide the opportunity for early career researchers and PhD students to discuss, network and collaborate with fellow scholars on entrepreneurial ecosystems. The Summer School takes place after the Winter School organized by Utrecht and the Innodays con

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Summer School 2023 — Paris

Summer School in Paris devoted to the nature, emergence and dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Sticky ties: Quest for structural inter-organizational configurations in entrepreneurial ecosystems

Entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) research requires a better understanding of its various configurations and processes at its whole scale to open its black box and create new theoretical opportunities. We designed exploratory research to longitudinally observe network behaviors betw

Sticky Ties: Quest for Structural Inter-organizational Configurations in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Longitudinal observation of network behaviors between EE 'species' in four territories (3 in Africa, 1 in France) from 2017 to 2021, observing 685 actors and 155,470 observations.

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Autumn School 2022, Casablanca (Innodays)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP Innodays is the International Conference for Innovation and Entrepreneurship organized by ADALIA Institute in Casablanca since 2016. With more than 5 years of successful editions, the conference proposes from 2022 an as

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Autumn School 2022 — Casablanca (Innodays)

Innodays Conference and Autumn School in Casablanca, with call for papers for special edition of Small Business Economics Journal on Opening Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Black Boxes.

Entrepreneurial ecosystem’s black box: inter-organizational ties in low-income countries: the case of Morocco and Madagascar

What makes one specific Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (EE) more conducive to entrepreneurial activity than another? We mobilize ecosystem and network theories to describe EE processual patterns having an impact on Entrepreneurial Dynamics outcomes. We targeted low-income environments

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem's Black Box: Morocco and Madagascar

Empirical research using quantitative graph theory and big data scraping (1,302 articles, 185 organizations) showing Morocco's disaggregated ecosystem vs Madagascar's denser/more modular one.

Comment naviguer dans la jungle de l’écosystème entrepreneurial

Un écosystème caractérise un milieu réunissant les conditions pour permettre le développement d’entités vivantes, interagissant entre elles. Quid des écosystèmes entrepreneuriaux, censés aider les entrepreneurs dans leurs projets, leur croissance et leur pérennité ? Kit de survie

Comment naviguer dans la jungle de l'écosystème entrepreneurial

Article HBR France : kit de survie pour les jeunes entreprises dans la jungle de l'écosystème entrepreneurial.

Goats and Crocodiles : African Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Network Archetypes, the cases of Madagascar, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem is now a growing research field which aims to explore how Entrepreneurship is nurtured in the world. But as this phenomenon produces interesting economic and micro level contributions, only recent research explores its configurational patterns. But EE re

Goats and Crocodiles: African Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Network Archetypes

Conference paper at BCERC Waco and RnD Trento identifying two archetypes of African EEs (Goats vs Crocodiles) using web scraping on 410 actors and 38,233 observations.

Opening entrepreneurial ecosystem’s black box: the power of networks in African low-income countries

What makes one type of entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) more conducive to entrepreneurial dynamics than another? EE research is a hot topic, and considerable progress has been made as regards its elements, network, and actors’ components. However, some scholars regret the absence o

Opening Entrepreneurial Ecosystem's Black Box: The Power of Networks in African Low-Income Countries

Springer paper on inter-organizational ties analysis among EE actors in five low-income African countries using QCA, web scraping, and quantitative graph theory.

Structural and Processual Approach of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, the case of Lyon Area

Rising Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (EE) research is important to better understand how Entrepreneurial Dynamics are locally supported. But it presents many dead angles, such as the empirical understanding of its inter-organizational network of actors’ structure and processes. The e

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Power of Networks : central role impact in low income countries

What makes an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem more conductible to Entrepreneurial Dynamics than another ? Entrepreneurial Ecosystem research raised as a hot topic, leading to progresses on its elements, network, actors components, or levels of analysis. However, some scholars regret th

Tracking the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem’s Configuration Impact. The Power of Networks in African Low-Income Countries

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (EE) research raised as a hot topic (Velt et al., 2020), leading to progresses on its elements (Stam and van de Ven, 2019), network (Albourini et al., 2020), actors (Purbasari et al., 2020) or levels of analysis (Theodoraki and Messeghem, 2017). However,

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Spillovers: power of networks and central actor in low-income countries, an exploratory study

Taking its origins in Van De Ven (1993) and Isenberg (2010) seminal work, the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem concept is by design meant to understand entrepreneurial dynamics in a given territory. Research on Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (EE) received a growing interest (Velt, Torkkeli a

Structural and Processual Approach of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems — the case of Lyon Area

Empirical study going beyond econometric analysis to evaluate the inter-organizational network of actors in the Lyon area entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Power of Networks: Central Role Impact in Low-Income Countries

Empirical analysis of how EE configuration operates in low-income countries through network central role.

Tracking the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem's Configuration Impact

Empirical analysis of the absence of empirical analysis of EE as a whole, focusing on African low-income countries.

How entrepreneurial ecosystem actors ties can undermine entrepreneurial efforts : an exploratory study from Moroco

What makes one specific Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (EE) more conducive to entrepreneurial activity than another? We mobilize ecosystem and network theories to describe EE processual patterns having an impact on Entrepreneurial Dynamics outcomes. We targeted low income environments

Meso approach of EE to catch the ties mobilizing Network Theory and using Quantitative Graph Theory

Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE) is now a prominent topic in entrepreneurship research (Acs et al., 2017; O’Connor et al., 2018; Volkmann et al., 2019). The concept has rapidly seduced policy makers (Stam, 2015), leading mainly to a theorization at a macro-level of analysis (Malec

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Spillovers: Power of Networks and Central Actor in Low-Income Countries

Exploratory study on EE spillovers building on Van De Ven (1993) and Isenberg (2010), at macro level of analysis in low-income countries.

How Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Actor Ties Can Undermine Entrepreneurial Efforts — Morocco

Exploratory study from Morocco using quantitative graph theory to identify EE actor ties' negative effects on entrepreneurial dynamics.

Meso Approach of EE: Network Theory and Quantitative Graph Theory

Methodological proposal for a meso-level approach to EE research using network theory and quantitative graph theory.