A Transdisciplinary Spatial Approach to Creating a Vibrant Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Regional Development

Abstract

Defining vibrancy as the levels of entrepreneurial activity promoted by the coordination of the network and the cooperation that represents an entrepreneurial ecosystem, practitioners and academicians have identified core attributes to create value based on the complex connection of factors to make it vibrant. Nevertheless, some ecosystems do not have efficient activity levels or are not well interconnected, preventing all stakeholders’ total involvement or spillover (value creation and outcomes such as socio-economic development, well-being, and happiness). The contribution of this work is to use a transdisciplinary spatial method (used in measuring the spatial concentration of airline traveling) to measure the vibrancy of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. The framework procures the measurement of vibrancy and its sustainability for value creation in turbulent environments. A vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem imbues regional development. A case will present a numerical comparison between the level of vibrancy between ecosystems and illustrations of its activity levels for the creation of networks and regional development.