Unlike existing studies on entrepreneurial ecosystems that focus on the internal dynamics of such systems, this article argues that entrepreneurial ecosystems are linked to one another through economically specialised migrants that trigger their emergence and positively affect their future development. To illustrate the relation between migration and the dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems, a model is presented that distinguishes three different phases: (i) the remigration of highly skilled migrants, (ii) ‘sunshine return migration’ and (iii) the outmigration of local entrepreneurs to foreign entrepreneurial ecosystems. Even though the model is based on both existing literature and our own empirical findings in the Tel Aviv IT entrepreneurial ecosystem, it is argued that its implications also hold true for other regional contexts.
The editorial for the special issue on entrepreneurial ecosystems summarizes the ongoing debate on the entrepreneurial ecosystem concept and portrays the backgrounds of founding figures of the concept. It traces the unique contribution of this issue with regard to recently published research. The contributions deal with the measurement of and the role of specific actors and institutions in entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become an indispensable tool in all fields dealing with geographic data in academia as well as the public and private sector. After some initial reservations, human geography and other social sciences have also embraced GIS technologies especially by extending and adjusting the available data models for qualitative data. The result was coined qualitative GIS. Given the diversity and fragmentation of the research in which qualitative GIS have been applied, a comprehensive literature review is overdue. Therefore, we retrieved all articles that dealt with qualitative GIS from the ISI Web of Science. From the resulting 380 relevant manuscripts, we extracted study‐specific information and analyzed it by means of descriptive statistics, text mining, detrended correspondence analysis (DCA), and k‐means clustering. Our results reveal four major thematic domains within which qualitative GIS research takes place, namely, “conceptual contributions to qualitative GIS,” “theory and empiricism of public participation GIS,” “health, youth, and the urban environment,” and “ecosystem services, landscapes, and tourism”. Some of these trends are popular in specific regions (e.g., “ecosystem services, landscapes, and tourism” research in Australia). Furthermore, we found that a large body of studies lacks clear information on the used software packages and that the share of free open‐source GIS software is negligible. Overall, we would encourage more transparency, a wider use of open‐source software, and interdisciplinary collaboration to even further advance and promote qualitative GIS research. To put our recommendations into practice, we made the data used in this manuscript and the corresponding analysis publicly accessible (https://github.com/jannes‐m/qual_gis). To further facilitate the replication of our results, we exclusively used open‐source software, namely, R, leaflet, and PostgreSQL. These and other open‐source software packages, for example, Python and QGIS, might have the potential to fundamentally change the way to conduct qualitative GIS research. This is equally true for methods borrowed from other fields such as ordinations, cluster algorithms, and interactive web mapping, which might be promising tools in human geography and the social sciences.
Abstract. The conceptualization of policies as mobile and mutable knowledge is the key feature of the recent debate on policy mobilities. Policy mobility studies have focused on the movement and translation of policies as well as on the impact of mobile policies on policy-making processes and governed spaces. Given that policy mobilities have mainly been examined in comparable institutional contexts, the current debate has neglected the role of organizational culture in the translation of policies. Organizational culture is understood as a set of shared assumptions that guide what happens in organizations by defining appropriate practices of policy making. The case study, South Korean adaptation policy, illustrates that organizational culture has a significant impact on the translation of mobile adaptation policy. Besides the claim to consider organizational culture more prominently in the field of policy mobility studies, this paper illustrates the translation process of adaptation policy in the South Korean political system. The practices in South Korean political institutions dealing with climate change adaptation are highly characterized by the avoidance of risks. The propensity to avoid risks leads policy makers to focus on technical solutions to climate change adaptation and to neglect the participation of civil society.
The concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems has gained tremendous attention in academia across different scientific disciplines. This start-of-the-art contribution addresses the most recent lineages of the entrepreneurial ecosystem debate from a spatial perspective: measurement of entrepreneurial ecosystems, entrepreneurial evolution, novel actors, institutions and events, governance as well as gender in entrepreneurial ecosystems. The theoretical advancements will be critically reviewed by examining the implicit and explicit spatial references. The paper also highlights the potential of using spatial analysis for entrepreneurial ecosystems, drawing on four different understandings of space.
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