Exploring the Idiosyncratic Nature of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Abstract

This cumulative dissertation examines the idiosyncratic nature of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Based on resource-based reasoning, it identifies several isolating mechanisms causing ecosystem idiosyncrasy, which is displayed on a structural level of entrepreneurial ecosystems by its unique capital structure. The thesis identifies the actor and inter-actor level of entrepreneurial ecosystems as causing forces of ecosystem idiosyncrasy. The thesis investigates the inter-actor and actor level of entrepreneurial ecosystems with qualitative studies to detect and describe their influences on the evolution of an ecosystem's idiosyncratic resource structure. By so doing, it detects the contributions that start-up events and transnational entrepreneurship makes to entrepreneurial ecosystem emergence.