“…It is not only financial support that drives the positive development of the Nordic region, but the unique and established multi-country Nordic collaboration such as the Nordic Smart Government data initiative (Nordic Innovation Report, 2019) and the supra-national, inter-parliamentary and inter-governmental co-operation of the Nordic Council of Ministers, which set out to ‘create the most sustainable and integrated region in the world by 2030’ and by combining forces to, inter alia, promote innovation and digital integration (Nordic Co-operation, 2021). Furthermore, by investigating neighboring ecosystems, we hope to add to the identified empirical gap for transnational entrepreneurial ecosystem research and multiscale studies (Alvedalen and Boschma, 2017; Velt et al, 2020; Wurth et al, 2021). To give one example of the social environment, Denmark, Finland and Sweden can be found to be leading most categories of the Better Life Index, which ‘compares the well-being across countries, based on eleven topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life’ (OECD Better Life Index, 2019).…”