Open Workshop: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
The aim of the Open Workshop Series in Business and Management Studies is to promote top-quality academic and applied research in various fields of the social sciences. This is a unique opportunity for sharing knowledge and networking with local and international community members.
Speaker: Professor Erik Stam, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Entrepreneurial ecosystems have developed from a powerful idea and concept into a transdisciplinary research program, increasing our understanding of entrepreneurship-led development and providing actionable knowledge for improving the conditions for entrepreneurship and development. In this workshop we take stock of the progress to date with an overview organized around five key mechanisms that explain the nature and development of entrepreneurial ecosystems: (1) interdependence of its elements, (2) upward causation explaining entrepreneurial ecosystem outputs, and (3) outcomes, (4) downward causation and path dependence, and (5) inter-ecosystem links. I will summarize the findings and outline research opportunities and discuss policy implications in the light of a transdisciplinary entrepreneurial ecosystem research program.
Erik Stam is a Full Professor of Strategy, Organization & Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Utrecht University. At Utrecht University he is also a member of the program team of the Strategic Research Theme Institutions for Open Societies, and a member of the advisory boards of the Centre for Complex Systems Studies (CCSS) and the Centre for Global Challenges (UGlobe). He is an Extraordinary Professor of Economics and co-director of the Allan Gray Centre for Africa Entrepreneurship at Stellenbosch University (South Africa).
He was Dean of the Utrecht University School of Economics and held positions at Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Max Planck Institute of Economics (Jena, Germany), IMT School for Advanced Studies (Lucca, Italy), and the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). He is editor of the journals Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Small Business Economics.
He is a leading scholar of entrepreneurial ecosystems, engaged in the science and practice of entrepreneurship-led development, both locally and globally. He has (co-)authored more than a hundred books, book chapters, and articles on this and related topics. Next to his scientific work, he is often consulted by governments, at the local, regional, national, and international levels (European Commission, OECD, G20, World Bank), and by start-ups, investors, and corporates on innovation and entrepreneurship.
Discussion moderated by Dr. Arnis Sauka.
Attendance is free of charge.
Please sign up for the seminar, by writing to arnis.sauka@sseriga.edu by February 21, 2024.
The aim of the SSE Riga Open Workshop Series is to:
- Foster cooperation between business and management researchers, practitioners and policymakers, as well as
- Promote academic and applied research in various fields of the social sciences, focusing on but not limited to entrepreneurship, marketing, management, public administration, and strategy.
Organised by Professor Arnis Sauka, the Centre for Sustainable Business at SSE Riga