“…Regarding the research design adopted, it appeared that the majority of the 35 articles had an empirical approach (26 articles)qualitative (nine articles) analyzing case studies (Barot and Chhaniwal, 2018) or implementing a thematic analysis (Wang et al, 2022); quantitative (12 articles) focusing in the majority of cases on US unicorns (Chernenko et al, 2021;Malyy et al, 2021; Kartanait_ e and Kru sinskas, 2022) and adopting regression (Chernenko et al, 2021) and cluster analysis (Piaskowska et al, 2021), and following mixed method approach (five articles) such as fsQCA technique (Torres and Godinho, 2022). The rest of the papers were conceptual (nine articles), investigating a particular phenomenon such as financing patterns (Mittal and Madan, 2020) or entrepreneurial ecosystems (Chillakuri et al, 2020).…”