There is an established body of research that has examined the value-added provided by venture capitalists for their portfolio companies. More recent work has started to look at the comparable activities of corporate venture capitalists. However, to date, the value-added provided by these two...

The concept of an ‘innovation ecosystem’ is increasingly used to describe collectives of heterogeneous, yet complementary organizational actors who jointly create some kind of system-level output, analogous to an ‘ecosystem service’ that natural ecosystems facilitate, and one that...

Entrepreneurial ecosystems command increasing attention from policy-makers, academics, and practitioners, yet the phenomenon itself remains under-theorized. Specifically, the conceptual similarities and differences of entrepreneurial ecosystems relative to, e.g., clusters, ‘knowledge...