Abstract
This paper examines the sources of the emergence in greater Boston of a large population of technology differentiating enterprises and the systemic processes by which new opportunities for innovation are both created and enacted in the form of emerging, co-adapting, and growing high tech sectors. I argue that Greater Boston׳s population of small- and medium-sized high-tech enterprises offers a systemic form of opportunity creation and enacting processes for industrial innovation. But they do not do so alone. The population of enterprises is embedded in a regional industrial ecosystem that facilitates ongoing reshuffling of the region׳s expertise, technology capabilities and financial resources for not only a single company but for a cluster of companies to grow fast. The concept of a regional industrial ecosystem suggests a locality analogous to Darwin׳s ‘small area׳ in which a ‘manufactory of species׳ is active but applied to the emergence, coadaptation, and growth of diverse sectors.
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