Entrepreneurial ecosystems continue to capture the imagination of academics, policy makers, investors, and the popular press. The entrepreneurial ecosystems most likely to receive attention are focused on high growth and technology entrepreneurs despite the fact that small businesses make up the overwhelming majority of businesses globally. A significant subset of these small businesses are likely to be founded and run by everyday entrepreneurs and increasingly by transitional everyday entrepreneurs who too often lack resources and connections within and across their ecosystem(s). The lack of connections and ineffective policies can even serve as significant barriers to resource availability and flow. While not always intentional, the very organizations meant to serve transitional entrepreneurial ecosystems may both enable and constrain resource acquisition and flow in ways that more typical entrepreneurial supporting organizations do not. By highlighting the story of Westminster University’s engagement with an ecosystem in the capital city (Salt Lake City) of a state (Utah) in the U.S. consistently ranked as one of the most successful economies in the U.S. this chapter explores how transnational entrepreneurs are both enabled and constrained by the policies, programs, and institutional frameworks meant to connect them to—and increase the flow of resources within—entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Transitional Everyday Entrepreneurs and their Enabling and Constraining Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

  • Dax Jacobson

摘要

Entrepreneurial ecosystems continue to capture the imagination of academics, policy makers, investors, and the popular press. The entrepreneurial ecosystems most likely to receive attention are focused on high growth and technology entrepreneurs despite the fact that small businesses make up the overwhelming majority of businesses globally. A significant subset of these small businesses are likely to be founded and run by everyday entrepreneurs and increasingly by transitional everyday entrepreneurs who too often lack resources and connections within and across their ecosystem(s). The lack of connections and ineffective policies can even serve as significant barriers to resource availability and flow. While not always intentional, the very organizations meant to serve transitional entrepreneurial ecosystems may both enable and constrain resource acquisition and flow in ways that more typical entrepreneurial supporting organizations do not. By highlighting the story of Westminster University’s engagement with an ecosystem in the capital city (Salt Lake City) of a state (Utah) in the U.S. consistently ranked as one of the most successful economies in the U.S. this chapter explores how transnational entrepreneurs are both enabled and constrained by the policies, programs, and institutional frameworks meant to connect them to—and increase the flow of resources within—entrepreneurial ecosystems.