Ecosystem Framework Research Articles

Developing a knowledge ecosystem for large-scale research infrastructure

Large-scale research infrastructures (RIs), such as MAX IV and European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden, are considered critical for advancing science and addressing social challenges. These research facilities are central to research, innovation, and education; in playing a key role in developing and disseminating knowledge and technology. In this study, we develop a conceptual framework of a knowledge ecosystem for large-scale RIs. The study is explorative, with primary data from 13 interviews with key informants from different stakeholders in academia, industry, and policy. Secondary data were obtained from reports from national agencies that develop and operate research facilities and from industrial and regional governmental reports, internal reports, newsletters, and information from the facilities’ websites. We find that academia, industry, and policy, together with four themes, have an effect on the value proposition of these facilities, on geographical distances (nodes), catalysts, platforms, and hubs. Therefore, they will affect the structure and design of a knowledge ecosystem. Our framework explains knowledge ecosystem structure and design.

Finding the sweet spot: critiquing a cultural ecosystems approach to civic cultural strategy making

ABSTRACT This paper contributes to debates about how cities create resilient systems for making, re-making and maintaining representations of culture. Our case traces how collaborative festival production implicitly created an infrastructure founded on shared values. This was formalised into city cultural policy using an ecosystem framework, which institutionalised these values, and meant that the ecosystem became partial, excluding creative commercial and community organisations, city residents from diverse backgrounds, and influential non-city bodies. Using the same model to analyse the strategy making process, we argue that this framework can only develop resilience where there is explicit inclusion of the diversity of the city’s cultural interests. This diversity is central to resilient ecosystems, and whilst this framework may offer more inclusive strategy approaches, it also decentralises ownership and leadership. We ask – is there a ‘sweet spot’ for resilient and inclusive cultural policy between centralised strategy and a laissez-faire approach?

Toward an Ecosystem Framework for Advancing Women’s Entrepreneurship in Yemen

Women’s entrepreneurship is critical to an economy’s growth and development, yet it faces a variety of difficulties. This study aims to conduct a theoretical assessment of women’s entrepreneurship in Yemen and examine the problems it faces in its development. The findings show that women entrepreneurs in Yemen face numerous hurdles, including social, cultural, and institutional barriers; financial constraints; a lack of entrepreneurial education and knowledge; and a deficiency in training and incubation support. Consequently, it is suggested that a complete ecosystem for women’s entrepreneurship be developed, involving various stakeholders and comprising different types of facilities capable of assisting women entrepreneurs and ensuring their optimum advantage.

Emergence in marketing: an institutional and ecosystem framework

Many core marketing concepts (e.g., markets, relationships, customer experience, brand meaning, value) concern phenomena that are difficult to understand using linear and dyadic approaches, because they are emergent. That is, they arise, often unpredictably, from interactions within complex and dynamic contexts. This paper contributes to the marketing discipline through an explication of the concept of emergence as it applies to marketing theory. We accomplish this by first drawing on the existing literature on emergence in philosophy, sociology, and the theory of complex adaptive systems, and then link and extend this understanding to marketing using the theoretical framework of service-dominant (S-D) logic, particularly as enhanced by its service-ecosystems and institutionalization perspectives. Our work recognizes both emergence and institutionalization as integral or interrelated processes in the creation, maintenance, and disruption of markets and marketing phenomena. We conclude by discussing implications for marketing research and practice.

The Digital Equity Leadership Lab (DELL)

This paper presents the Digital Equity Leadership Lab in Baltimore, Maryland as a case study of community leadership development to promote digital equity and justice. While several studies of community leadership development exist, few are focused on its role in promoting digital equity and justice. This case study attempts to address this gap in the scholarly literature through the following research question: How might DELL serve as a community-based leadership training model to develop the next wave of digital equity leaders? Through our analysis of interviews with community leaders, outside experts, and community foundation staff, we discovered the following three main findings: (1) bringing national policymakers and advocates together with community leaders is powerful and transformative; (2) digital inequality is a social, not a technological problem; and (3) community leaders need access to a shared platform and to each other to create change. These findings suggest that community leaders can benefit from seeing their work within a digital equity ecosystems framework, which calls attention to the importance the interactions that exist among individuals, populations, communities, and their broader sociotechnical environments that all shape the work to promote more equitable access to technology and social and racial justice. This case study report concludes with recommendations for community leaders, including community foundations, working to uncover systemic discrimination shaping digital inequality today to advance digital equity and justice.

Nigeria as an Emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Prospects & Challenges

Until recently, the global concern is growing about the need for effective Entrepreneurial Ecosystem with a view towards public private partnership in building a practical ecosystem for promoting Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) development. Entrepreneurship in Nigeria has suffered so many years of neglect and deficiencies, this is in spite of array of policy decisions and programs embarked by successive governments over time to bring socio-economic development and growth in the sector. The Nigerian entrepreneurial ecosystem consists of a diverse pool of actors from the public, private, nonprofit and development sectors carrying out different ecosystem functions that impact and determine entrepreneurship outcomes. Using the Isenberg’s six pillars of the entrepreneurial ecosystem framework, the study employed analytical review method to examined the Nigerian entrepreneurial ecosystem and explored deeper into the Nigerian economic , financial, social, political, and cultural contexts. The study revealed the issues that facilitated and impeded on the six pillars reviewed in the Nigerian entrepreneurial ecosystem . It was concluded that, unless there are deliberate attempts by government to creating enabling environment for smooth and successful engagements and collaborations with all stakeholders to meeting the entrepreneurs needs; all efforts and governmental strides to ensuring speedy entrepreneurship transformation and sustainable economic development will remain sluggish and unattained. This paper recommends amongst others, that there should be consistent monitoring and review of policies on entrepreneurship that will ensure its impact on startup, survival and growth of SMEs . Â

INSTITUTIONAL INSTRUMENTS FOR ECO-FOCUSED WATER TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT

Topicality. In recent years, there has been increasing pressure on the marine and riverine environment due to increasing volumes and globalization processes in international trade. This situation has the effect of increasing the negative impact on the dynamics of the natural aquatic environment quality by increasing oil spills, emissions of chemicals and other harmful substances, air pollution and the indirect impact of these processes on water resources, waste disposal, noise and radioactive load. The forecast assessment of the dynamics of the world economy shows a gradual increase in the volume of shipping due to the increase in the world's population and consumption. Enhanced use of water basins requires new innovative management initiatives with the development of tools to ensure the ecological sustainability of marine and river ecosystems, taking into account the threats and risks of their introduction to the environment. The peculiarity of protecting the marine and riverine environment from navigation is that ships do not always operate within the flag state, and the further the ship moves away from it, the less the state has the opportunity to rely on traditional sovereignty within its jurisdiction. Involvement of many stakeholders in the process of water transport, lack of full autonomy of the flag state to regulate the activities of the ship outside its jurisdiction requires the development of methodological approaches and practical measures to develop ways and methods of institutional and organizational impact on ships based on international requirements. and standards. Aim and tasks. The purpose of the article is to analyse the existing and potential institutional resources for the prevention of technogenic threats from shipping and the development of water transport on the basis of eco-focused. Research results. It has been confirmed that at the present stage of economic development transport plays a leading role, as it is an important part of industry, consumption, agriculture. Water transport is responsible for the majority of international traffic, which results in negative consequences of its work. It is known that any type of transport, including maritime, is one of the biggest polluters of the environment, but the vital needs of mankind should not be met by future generations. Solving environmental issues is a relatively new direction in the science of management, however, in recent decades many countries have joined this practice, focusing on scientific support of programs and plans against global change, which affect not only marine and river biocenoses, but also have consequences in the form of a shift in the ecosystem framework of the entire planet. The activity of water transport is slowly growing in its scale and consequences, which requires more attention from government agencies, which should join international initiatives to obtain a positive result from environmental activities and increase the authority of the state. In addition, the aquatic environment is usually the area of interest of different countries and different stakeholders, being a transboundary area, which should take into account not only the interests and needs of different countries, but also form a single legal basis for economic, environmental and recreational activities within marine and river borders. Conclusion. The paper examines and analyses the existing organizational and legislative precautionary tools to reduce technogenic pollution of the marine and river environment, investigates measures for the treatment of ballast water and developed an algorithm for their management; an analysis of possible precautionary measures against the impact of air pollution, garbage, oil and petroleum products on the quality of the aquatic environment and proposed a number of precautionary measures; conceptual provisions for the formation of a national action plan for ballast water management have been developed. Conceptual provisions for the formation of state organizational and institutional support for the treatment of ballast water by methods of preventive protection on the basis of updated management tools, economic feasibility and environmental orientation; developed scientific and applied substantiation of regulatory and coordination approaches based on economic feasibility, focused on the balanced development of aquatic ecosystems and environmental safety of navigation.

Evaluating Efforts to Address Campus Sexual Violence: Developing a Data Ecosystem.

Sexual violence is well documented as a major problem on college campuses, and the delivery of service and programs at institutions of higher education (IHE) has proliferated over recent years. However, the implementation of these efforts has often outpaced the field's work in developing evaluation models. Many institutions depend on campus climate surveys for data to inform their efforts, yet there are multiple data points that can be accessed to provide a more holistic picture of efforts to address sexual violence on campus. The data ecosystem framework provided by Driver-Linn & Svenson (2017) offers a comprehensive approach for assessing efforts to address campus sexual violence (CSV), but implementation models are needed that connect evaluation and practice, take local context into account, and lead to changes on campus. This paper presents a case study from a multisite university to describe the process of implementing a "data ecosystem" to assess the institutions' efforts to effectively address CSV, and how the data was used by practitioners and administrators. The collaborative, utilization-driven model has provided valuable data to inform the delivery of services and programs across the university yet has limitations and requires a wide range of resources to sustain.

E-Platform-Enabled Transnational E-Entrepreneurship

This paper examines transnational e-entrepreneurs enabled by e-platforms through the lens of entrepreneurship process theories. The authors argue that transnational e-entrepreneurs engaging in necessity-driven e-entrepreneurship have been neglected in current related literature. This paper first proposes that transnational e-entrepreneurship research should be conducted in a framework of cross-country e-entrepreneurial ecosystem that combines host- and home-country entrepreneurial ecosystems and digital ecosystems. Then the framework was tested by case studies and proved to be valid. The paper found that e-platforms enabled necessity-driven transnational entrepreneurs to operate in the same manner with opportunity-drive entrepreneurship. The authors also conclude future research themes for transnational e-entrepreneurship study should separate necessity-driven and opportunity-driven entrepreneurs. It suggests the policymaker needs to emphasize necessity-driven e-entrepreneurs.

Study on the construction of smart tourism ecosystem and polycentric governance mechanism

<p>Building a smart tourism ecosystem is an important means for the tourism industry to strengthen resource sharing, realize value co-creation and promote healthy development of the industry. Based on the ecological governance perspective and the theory of smart tourism, the connotation of smart tourism ecosystem is proposed and the structural framework of smart tourism ecosystem is constructed by using semi-structured interview method. The framework of smart tourism ecosystem consists of smart tourism platform, smart government, smart tourism suppliers, smart tourism destination marketing organization, smart tourism consumers and external environment, defines the role of each element in the structural framework, and analyzes the characteristics of data flow between each element. The polycentric governance mechanism of the smart tourism ecosystem, including the ecological governance mechanism of smart government, smart tourism suppliers, smart tourism destination marketing organizations and smart tourism consumers, is proposed to provide a reference for the construction and development of regional smart tourism ecosystem.</p>

Landsat Data Ecosystem Case Study: Actor Perceptions of the Use and Value of Landsat

It is well-known that Earth observation (EO) data plays a critical role in scientific understanding about the global environment. There is also growing support for the use of EO data to provide context-specific insights, with significant implications for their use in decision support systems. Technological development over recent years, including cloud computing infrastructure, machine learning techniques, and rapid expansion of the velocity, volume, and variety of space-borne data sources, offer huge potential to provide solutions to the myriad environmental problems facing society and the planet. The USGS/NASA Landsat Program, the longest continuously gathered source of land surface data, has played a central role in our understanding of environmental change, particularly for its contribution of longitudinal products that offer greater context for present research and decision support activities. The challenge facing the Landsat and EO data community, however, now lies in moving beyond context-specific knowledge generation to translating such knowledge into tangible value for society. Drawing from an open data ecosystem framework and qualitative social science methods, we map the Landsat data ecosystem (LDE) and the relationships linking multiple actors responsible for processing, indexing, analyzing, synthesizing, and translating raw Landsat data into information that is useful, useable, and used by end users in particular social-environmental contexts. Both the role of Big Data and associated technologies are discussed as they relate to the ultimate use of Landsat-derived information products to guide decision-making, and key data ecosystem characteristics that shape the likelihood of these products’ use are highlighted.

Urbanization and sustainable development for inclusiveness using ICTs

The arrival of information and communication technology (ICT) as well as the deployments of free and open-source software (FOSS) have brought hope to developing countries that the use of enabling technologies potentially mitigates the impact of global environmental and socio-economic crises, and it drive radical changes in a user's skills or culture. In 2019, with widespread territorial disparities, approximately 53.6% people were connected to the Internet worldwide. The majority of the offline user lives in the least developed countries, and only 19% of them use the internet, compared to 87% in developed nations. Sustainable development depends on successful management of open and inclusive urban development, especially in low-income and middle-income countries, where the fastest urbanization is expected to occur by the year 2050. The application of ICT enhances the independence, dignity, and equal opportunities of all people, thereby promoting their integration into society. An inclusive approach-based citizen participation is extremely important for building an inclusive society. Furthermore, this study highlights the current issues and challenges in developing countries, as well as the role of ICT in promoting socio-economic development, where it can serve as a catalyst for the implementation of the concept of sustainable urbanization. Considering the emerging socio-technological aspect, a framework for a sustainable socio-technical ecosystem is presented here to achieve economic independence and empowerment.

Development of Framework for Halal Studies Program Evaluation

The halal industry development requires a competent halal industry human capital. However, very few establishments create employment opportunities for halal studies graduates. There are currently no guidelines or frameworks for halal education to suit the job markets. In response to this scenario, this paper will examine the support system of the Malaysian higher learning institution that offers halal studies programmes to develop a more comprehensive halal education ecosystem framework. Additionally, the study examined whether Malaysia’s current legal system has resulted in increased job opportunities for halal studies graduates. On 12th April 2021, the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) in collaboration with Halal Development Corporation Berhad (HDC) and the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) has, developed the new academic programme standard for halal studies. Is this standard necessary to alter the current halal studies curriculum to make it more relevant to the halal industry? Thus, it is necessary to thoroughly study and discuss the vibrant guidelines and framework to enhance the quality and competency of halal studies graduates for the future job markets in Malaysia, which serves as a hub for competent halal expert providers that capable of meeting the halal industry ecosystem’s human capital needs.

A Dynamic Equilibrium Mechanism of Core Layer Interests in the Mobile Medical Platform Ecosystem.

In recent years, with the development of the mobile Internet, big data, and cloud computing, the mobile medical platforms such as Ding Xiang Yuan aggregating platform ecological resources have played an irreplaceable role in improving efficiency, optimizing resource allocation, and even promoting the transformation and upgrading of the medical industry. Despite all this, most mobile medical platforms in China still face many problems, including the immature business model, the stagnation of the interaction of knowledge and information among platform members, and the weak platform competitiveness. Based on a review of the platform and commercial ecosystems, this paper adopts the evolutionary game method and simulation to analyze the evolutionary stability strategy of operators, partners, and users in the core layer of the platform during preflow and postflow periods of a mobile medical platform, hence, to construct a beneficial dynamic equilibrium model of a platform business ecosystem under the optimal decisions made by all parties involved in the platform: the goal in the early stage (preflow period) is to increase platform user flow. Hence, the knowledge/information sharing of platform users is needed to enhance platform's visibility. While in the late period (postflow period), when the platform user flow reaches a certain scale, platform's goal is to promote revenue, which relies mainly on the pricing strategy. It is critical to promote the stability of the platform and the dynamic balance of interests at the core layer in the pricing process. This paper applies the platform business ecosystem theory and the evolutionary game theory to mobile medical platform development, contributing theoretically and practically in the following: (1) providing a more solid theoretical support for the mobile medical platform research and enriching the theoretical framework of the platform business ecosystem; (2) proposing the dynamic equilibrium model based on the optimal decisions of the platform core layers, which help to reveal the inherent law of the evolution of the mobile medical platform; (3) providing policy suggestions and management implications in constructing an appropriate business ecosystem and achieving sustainable development in mobile medical platforms.

Responding to Complementary-Asset Discontinuities: A Multilevel Adaptation Framework of Resources, Demand, and Ecosystems

We examine how incumbent organizations respond to complementary-asset discontinuities — technological changes that introduce new manufacturing, distribution, and sales assets but leave the incumbents’ core knowledge preserved. To examine this increasingly common but relatively overlooked phenomenon, we conducted an inductive study of how six newspapers adapted to Internet distribution from 1995 to 2019. Our contribution is a framework that highlights three levels of adaptation (resources, demand, and ecosystem) with related mechanisms and necessary outcomes. At the resource level, incumbents adopt the new complementary assets according to the perception of synergies with their existing core knowledge. At the demand level, the extent to which incumbents update their beliefs about value creation depends on how much they experiment with customers. At the ecosystem level, higher experimentation in the ecosystem helps incumbents to update their beliefs about value capture. The research offers important implications for the technological change, strategic management, and business model innovation literature.

Evolving framework of studies on global gulf ecosystems with Sustainable Development Goals.

Gulf ecosystems provide many beneficial services to humanity and play a key role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the sustainability of gulf ecosystems has been severely threatened by climatic and anthropogenic stresses. Using network analysis of article records downloaded from Web of Science, we summarize the current research framework of gulf ecosystems via the perspectives of research themes, interdisciplinarity, and international collaborations. Research themes involve nutrient and eutrophication, biodiversity, mangrove and sediment pollution, and ecosystem service and climate change. Nevertheless, these themes usually focus on gulf ecosystems themselves with little consideration of their connectivity with other ecosystems. Interdisciplinarity has remained mostly within natural sciences while international collaborations exist mainly between developed and developing countries and among developed countries. Combined with the SDGs, we propose the future research framework where research themes should consider the impacts of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems on gulf ecosystems at the watershed scale. Interdisciplinarity between natural and social and management sciences needs to be promoted by utilizing the advantages of data sciences. Collaborations with developing countries led by China, Mexico, Brazil, and India need to be strengthened. The evolved research framework could offer decision support for stakeholders to manage gulf ecosystems and achieve the SDGs.

Effects of environmental and spatial gradients on Quercus-dominated Mountain forest communities in the Hindu-Kush ranges of Pakistan

Quercus-dominated forests are among the most important broad-leaved evergreen forests of the Hindu Kush ranges and are currently prone to drastic anthropogenic and climatic changes. The aim of this study was to provide basic data for the development of a regional oak forest ecosystem framework for ecological restoration and management plan development to maintain local peoples’ livelihoods. Hence, we analyzed distribution patterns and environmental factors that affect regional oak forests’ species composition and diversity. Ward’s Agglomerative clustering divided oak-dominated forest communities into three groups: i.e., Group I, dominated by Quercus baloot had an importance value index (IVI) of 89.87 ± 4.31, Group II, dominated by Quercus dilatata had an IVI of 32.16 ± 15.01, and Group III, dominated by Quercus oblongata had an IVI of 83.14 ± 4.67, respectively. The environmental factors which vary significantly within these communities were latitude, elevation, clay content and bulk density of the soil. Wilting point, saturation point, and electrical conductivity were also considered as ecosystem structural variables. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) indicated that community structure was affected by various environmental factors including precipitation, slope angle, elevation, clay content, and relative humidity.

Which factors affect the performance of technology business incubators in China? An entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective.

To examine which factors affect the performance of technology business incubators in China, the present study proposes an entrepreneurial ecosystem framework with four key areas, i.e., people, technology, capital, and infrastructure. We then assess this framework using a three-year panel data set of 857 national-level technology business incubators in 33 major cities from 28 provinces in China, from 2015 to 2017. We utilize factor analysis to downsize dozens of characteristics of these technology business incubators into seven factors related to the four proposed areas. Panel regression model results show that four of the seven factors related to three areas of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, namely people, technology, and capital areas, have statistically significant associations with an incubator’s performance when applied to the overall national data set. Further, seven factors related to all four areas have various statistically significant associations with an incubator’s performance in five major regional data set. In particular, a technology related factor has a consistently statistically significant association with the performance of the incubator in both national model and the five regional models, as we expected.

Student entrepreneurship ecosystems at Australian higher education institutions

PurposeDespite the significance, university student start-ups and student entrepreneurship ecosystems (SEEs) have been subject to little research. This study aims to apply a qualitative emergent enquiry approach to explore best practice SEEs in Australia, complimented by narratives from leading scholars in higher education institutions with the aim of delineating the integrative components of SEEs.Design/methodology/approachAdopting the entrepreneurial ecosystem framework and aligned to the social cognitive theory, this paper explores the components and dynamics of SEEs, contributing to an understanding of how such components can better support the growth, sustainability and success of student start-ups. The authors extend entrepreneurship research on social construction using narrative research.FindingsThe findings provide guidelines for researchers, entrepreneurship scholars and educators, entrepreneurship students, policymakers and practitioners to enhance the impact and success of university student start-ups by adopting a student ecosystem approach.Research limitations/implicationsThe narratives represent a limited number of universities with an opportunity for further research to empirically measure the impact and outcomes of SEEs. The research is exploratory, inherently conceptual and emergent, providing an opportunity for validation of narrative frameworks in future studies.Practical implicationsThe findings may assist university managers to be more aware of their own subconscious preferences to student entrepreneurship and start-up initiatives, which may be useful in refining their impact and offerings regarding a quest toward the entrepreneurial university.Social implicationsFrom social perspectives, the alignment of the components of SEE has the ability to enhance and shift the entrepreneurial mindset of entrepreneurship students, notwithstanding enhancement of intentionality and self-efficacy.Originality/valueThis is the first study of SEEs in Australia, highlighting the importance of the integration of entrepreneurship education programs, entrepreneurship education ecosystems, the entrepreneurial university and specific start-up initiatives such as university accelerators. Furthermore, students may enhance their entrepreneurial mindset by actively engaging in such ecosystems.

The Concept of Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for SMEs in North Sulawesi, Indonesia

The digital economy comes with a sloping topography, is inclusive, and offers equal opportunities. This characteristic has the concept of competition which becomes the spirit of the industry that is easily lifted by SMEs players and Start-Ups who prioritize collaboration and synergy. Therefore, to face the challenges as well as opportunities that come simultaneously brought about by the presence of the digital economy and the pandemic situation, it is very important for SMEs to understand the environmental conditions and existing ecosystems, where a digital-based entrepreneurial ecosystem is something that is mandatory for the existence of SMEs. A new platform-based ecosystem framework, also known as the Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (DEE) is proposed which integrates two separate but related ecosystem literature, namely the digital ecosystem and the entrepreneurial ecosystem. This new framework places platform-based ecosystems within the broader context of users, agents, infrastructure and institutions, so that two biotic entities (users and agents) drive individual agency, while two abiotic components (digital technology and digital institutions) make up the external environment. The purpose of writing this article is to get an overview of the concept of the Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (DEE) by using a literature study research method. This article will be built and constructed based on empirical research that has been done, mapping articles and related studies to be able to provide an overview of the DEE concept for SMEs in North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The management of four sub-indexes of DEE, namely Digital Technology Infrastructure, Digital User Citizenship, Digital Multi-sided Platform, and Digital Technology Entrepreneurship, is the key to improving the SMEs in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.