Entrepreneurial Creativity form a Practice-based Perspective

Abstract

Novel ideas in the business world are often linked to entrepreneurship via entrepreneurial opportunities, no matter whether conceptualized from the discovery or the creation point of view. Notwithstanding the close link between creativity and entreprenuerial processes, only a few studies scrutinize this nexus, and particularly the role of context in shaping and changing these processes. Adopting the practice-based perspective, we focus on the journey of novel and potentially useful ideas in the business context and elucidate how different components of the entrepreneurial ecosystem as context affect generating, elaborating, championing and implementing of these ideas. Following a longitudinal multiple-case study in the Berlin entrepreneurial ecosystem, we studied 6 startups in this ecosystem for 18 months. The result unveils the micro¬-foundations that connect entrepreneurs and different components of the ecosystem and sheds light on how the entrepreneurial ecosystem contributes to entrepreneurial actions in general and different phase of creating and implementing novel ideas in particular.