[kictanet] What is an entrepreneurial ecosystem?

[Andrea Bohnstedt]

Not a direct tech topic, but relevant and interesting reading since there
was so much debate about fostering tech start ups:

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/05/what-an-entrepreneurial-ecosystem-actually-is/

Quotes:

'There is no evidence that increasing the number of startups *per se* or
new businesses formation stimulates economic development. There is some
evidence that it goes the other way around, that is, economic growth
stimulates new business creation and startups.'

'There is no systematic evidence that co-working spaces contribute
significantly to growing ventures. There are many anecdotes of high-growth
ventures in all segments which got their starts in incubators, but there
are also many more examples, less visible perhaps, of very success ventures
that made no use of co-working space.'

HT Conrad.

Have a lovely weekend,
Andrea
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