Join Professor Erik Stam as he explores entrepreneurial ecosystems and presents a transdisciplinary research program to study them.
Entrepreneurial ecosystems have become a prominent academic concept and policy approach for economic development. It draws on a rich intellectual history and provides an opportunity to synthesise different strands of research, and to improve the interaction between science and practice. This seminar takes stock of recent advancements in ecosystem scholarship and synthesizes the empirical reality of the causal mechanisms and propose a transdisciplinary research program for entrepreneurial ecosystem research and practice.
Erik Stam (1975) is Full Professor of Strategy, Organization and Entrepreneurship. He is Board Member of Strategic Research Theme Institutions for Open Societies, Faculty Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Utrecht University. Additionally, he holds an Extraordinary Professorship at Stellenbosch University (South Africa).
He was Dean of the Utrecht University School of Economics, and held positions at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute of Economics (Jena, Germany), IMT School for Advanced Studies (Lucca, Italy), and the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). He also serves as editor of the journals Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Small Business Economics. Erik Stam is a leading scholar of entrepreneurial ecosystems and is actively engaged in the science and practice of entrepreneurship-led development, both locally and globally. Besides his scientific work, he is often consulted by governments at various levels and by start-ups, investors and corporations on innovation and entrepreneurship.
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