Startup Ecosystems

ISBN-13: 9783031344138 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Fabio Greco

Opis

This book analyzes the components of the startup ecosystem, including the characteristics that can favor or disadvantage the development of new innovative ventures. The author believes it is essential to identify crucial variables of start-up ecosystems that have a context-specific influence on the well-being and development of startups. In this regard, the book analyzes the concept of the start-up ecosystem both from the point of view of scholars and professionals. The author then deals with the diverse approaches to studying startup ecosystems, which have over the years become increasingly complex, and less linear, making systematization indispensable. The author provides therefore a classification with a transversal logic with respect to this diversity of contributions in the literature. The main theoretical contributions to start-up ecosystems are grouped according to the attention they place on three different variables: territorial contexts, resources, and actors. The author also presents qualitative, interview-based, research using narrative analysis mode to understand the three variables.

The work provides, on the one hand, the proposal of a framework as a theoretical interpretative model useful both for the description of the fundamental components of the start-up ecosystem, and also useful for giving a boost to future research. On the other hand, the book also presents evidence of a practical nature useful to support and guide the choices of startup founders and of managers of companies and institutions that orbit within start-up ecosystems.

Spis treści

Part I The components of the start-up ecosystem

Introduction

Chapter 1: A Research Design on Start-up Ecosystems

Chapter 2: Studies on entrepreneurship and the phenomenon of start-ups

Chapter 3: The support mechanisms for innovative entrepreneurship: Start-up accelerators and incubators

Chapter 4: Start-up ecosystems and institutions: The role of universities and academic entrepreneurship.

Chapter 5: Access to new technologies as a lever for start-up scalability

Part II Benchmarking for start-up ecosystems

Chapter 6: International Benchmark for Italian Start-up Ecosystems

O autorze

Fabio Greco is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Department of Humanities Studies of the University of Naples Federico II (Italy). He holds a Ph.D. in Management from the Department of Economics, Management, Institutions, University of Naples Federico II. He is also a Founder of a start-up and academic spin-off of food delivery incubated in the university's certified university accelerator "Campania New Steel". The main research topics in which he is engaged are entrepreneurship, startup ecosystems, innovation, and the management of cultural heritage.