Blueprint Silicon Valley? Explaining Idiosyncrasy of Startup Ecosystems

• Autorzy: Thomas Baron , Jörg Freiling

Warianty tytułu

Modelowa Dolina Krzemowa? Wyjaśnienie idiosynkrazji ekosystemów startupów

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The concept of startup ecosystems has received significant attention from policy makers, particularly in the hope of transferring Silicon Valley performance effects to their own region. Previous research emphasizes the need to consider the unique and distinctive nature of the specific regional ecosystem in focus when developing policies for ecosystem development without a thorough specification and theoretically founded explanations. In this article, we address this gap and develop propositions why each ecosystem is unique in nature by employing resource-based reasoning. The article concludes that ecosystems are highly idiosyncratic and are, therefore, inimitable and non-transferable to other regions due to working isolating mechanisms. (original abstract)

Koncepcja ekosystemów startupów spotkała się z dużym zainteresowaniem decydentów, którzy mieli nadzieję na przeniesienie efektów działania Doliny Krzemowej do własnego regionu. We wcześniejszych badaniach podkreślano potrzebę uwzględnienia wyjątkowego i wyróżniającego charakteru ekosystemu regionalnego przy opracowywaniu polityk, nie przedstawiając jednak dokładnej charakterystyki i wyjaśnień opartych na teorii. W tym artykule zajęto się tą luką i opracowano propozycje wyjaśnienia unikalnego charakteru każdego ekosystemu przy zastosowaniu rozumowania opartego na podejściu zasobowym. Artykuł zakończono stwierdzeniem, że ekosystemy posiadają wysoce idiosynkratyczny charakter i dlatego są niepowtarzalne i nieprzenoszalne do innych regionów z powodu działania mechanizmów izolujących. (abstrakt oryginalny)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Startup; Resource Based View (RBV); Business ecosystem

PL

Przedsiębiorstwo typu start-up; Podejście oparte na zasobach; Ekosystem biznesowy

• Czasopismo: Problemy Zarządzania
• Rocznik: 2019
• Tom: 17
• Numer: nr 1 (81) Contemporary Entrepreneurship in Research and Practice : Multiple Dimensions and Contexts for Entrepreneurial Activity
• Strony: 57--76

Twórcy

autor

Thomas Baron

• University of Bremen, Germany

autor

Jörg Freiling

• University of Bremen, Germany

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DOI

10.7172/1644-9584.81.3