Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems

Abstract Despite the emerging body of literature on entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs), theoretical development is still in its infancy. In this article, we explicitly draw upon analogy forest (FEs) with an EE to extrapolate regional ecosystem (REE) as alternate conceptual framework. The REE considers a region’s socioeconomic activity and stability performance whole, influenced by partitioned interests economics, social arrangements, physical environment, knowledge technology that each contributes community’s industry economic order. We contend it when defined dimension analogous study forests. analysis, neither entrepreneur nor their firm are unit but change itself becomes priority. Scholars, interested effects entrepreneurship, can learn from ecological studies more fully grasp interplay between compositional, structural, functional elements specifically how entrepreneurs account for dynamics.