Challenges for the Measurement of Innovation Ecosystems and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Brazil

The virtues of variety in regional innovation systems and entrepreneurial ecosystems

Today, interesting and important interconnections have been made that promise great leaps forward for innovation systems and entrepreneurial ecosystems especially operating at the regional or sub-national level of the space economy. Of course, there are politics in such relationships. Most notable are those that are critical of anything that “interferes” with market hegemony (neoliberal bias) w...

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Growth Oriented Entrepreneurship

Increasing the number of high growth firms (HGFs) is now a major focus for industry policy in developed countries. However, existing approaches are proving ineffective. Simply creating supportive framework conditions is insufficient. Creating favourable environments for business start-ups is not leading to the creation of more HGFs. And transactional forms of support for HGFs (e.g. financial as...

Social Media and Innovation Ecosystems

the innovation of a statistical model to estimate dependable rainfall (dr) and develop it for determination and classification of drought and wet years of iran

آب حاصل از بارش منبع تأمین نیازهای بی شمار جانداران به ویژه انسان است و هرگونه کاهش در کم و کیف آن مستقیماً حیات موجودات زنده را تحت تأثیر منفی قرار می دهد. نوسان سال به سال بارش از ویژگی های اساسی و بسیار مهم بارش های سالانه ایران محسوب می شود که آثار زیان بار آن در تمام عرصه های اقتصادی، اجتماعی و حتی سیاسی- امنیتی به نحوی منعکس می شود. چون میزان آب ناشی از بارش یکی از مولفه های اصلی برنامه ...

Growth and Innovation in Platform Ecosystems

A large and growing portion of the economy transpires within software platforms. These environments are bounded high growth economies that embed many novel features: the platform owner sets rules for participation; R&D occurs rapidly, with generations of innovations building on one another; there are profit and adoption tradeoffs in open versus closed code. This paper introduces and develops a ...