Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Based on extensive fieldwork this book demonstrates how gender is an organizing principle of entrepreneurial ecosystems and makes a difference in how ecosystem resources are assembled and how they can be accessed. By bringing visibility to how ecosystem actors are heterogeneous across identities interactions and experiences the bookhighlights the role and complexity of individual organizational and institutional factors working in concert to create and maintain gendered inequities. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems provides research-driven insights around effective organizational practices and policies aimed at remedying gendered and intersectional inequalities associated with entrepreneurship activities and economic growth. Proposing a typology of four ecosystem identities it highlights how some might be more amenable and organized towards gender inclusion and change while others may be much more difficult to changereorganize and restructure. It offers scholars students practitioners and policymakers insights about gender in relation to analyzing entrepreneurial ecosystems and for fostering inclusive economic development policies.