Abstract
In the current state of globalization’s restructuring, numerous studies are examining policies to strengthen local entrepreneurship and productive systems, in terms of clusters and ecosystems. In this article, we apply and extend the Stra.Tech.Man approach to entrepreneurial dynamics as an alternative base of articulating a business ecosystems development policy. By studying the case of the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region, one of the less developed regions in Greece, we find that there are possibilities for using the Stra.Tech.Man approach to imprint, record and, by extension, give the possibility of strengthening the strategic, technological, and managerial capacity of the “cells” of specific business ecosystems. In this context, the aim of this study is to outline a new possible direction for policy planning and implementation, in order to expand the local business ecosystems’ innovative and competitive competence, especially in the context of a less developed region, by the usage of the ILDI (Institutes of Local Development and Innovation) mechanism. In this direction, we present an “introductory” and qualitative field research we carried out in the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, on a sample of SMEs, in diagnostic terms of Stra.Tech.Man physiology.
Highlights
In the current era of globalization’s restructuring (Laudicina & Peterson, 2016; Vlados, Deniozos, Chatzinikolaou, & Demertzis, 2018), there is a growing interest in the ways of diagnosing, curing and preventing local and regional underdevelopment and inequalities (Pike, Rodríguez-Pose, & Tomaney, 2017; Wei, 2015)
How does the entrepreneurial ecosystem bibliography perceive the evolutionary dynamics of entrepreneurship? The main feature that we find in a growing body of literature is the effect of this new biological perspective on the formulation of organizational strategy and management (Baldwin, 2012; Bosch & Olsson, 2018; Iansiti & Levien, 2004; Isenberg, 2010; Liu & Rong, 2015; Moore, 2013; Williamson & Meyer, 2012)
According to Innovation Norway’s 2017 annual report (Innovasjon Norge, 2017), Norwegian companies supported by Innovation Norway had 13.7% higher sales, 5% higher productivity and 8.7% more value added than other domestic companies (European Monitoring Centre on Change, 2018d). In Ireland, the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are the one-stop shop for anyone looking for information and support to start or develop a business
Summary
In the current era of globalization’s restructuring (Laudicina & Peterson, 2016; Vlados, Deniozos, Chatzinikolaou, & Demertzis, 2018), there is a growing interest in the ways of diagnosing, curing and preventing local and regional underdevelopment and inequalities (Pike, Rodríguez-Pose, & Tomaney, 2017; Wei, 2015). The structural changes that the various local systems are facing (Haddad, 2018; Isaksen, Tödtling, & Trippl, 2018; Neffke, Hartog, Boschma, & Henning, 2018; Uyarra & Flanagan, 2010) are leading to comparative developmental gaps In this context, there is an ongoing effort to explain them in terms of entrepreneurial development and innovative capacity (Blackburn, 2016; Golejewska, 2018; Roundy & Asllani, 2018; Schaltegger, Lüdeke-Freund, & Hansen, 2016; Storey, 2016) and innovation (Acs, Audretsch, Lehmann, & Licht, 2017; Etzkowitz & Zhou, 2017; Frederickson, 2016). 5) We arrive at specific conclusions and limitations of the field research
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