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Creating entrepreneurial communities: building community capacity for ecosystem development

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  • Deborah M. Markley
  • Thomas S. Lyons
  • Donald W. Macke

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Research on the economic impact of entrepreneurship makes the case for entrepreneur-focused economic development. Community economic development practitioners and policy-makers face the challenge of identifying and implementing the most promising strategies. Some community development researchers have argued effectively for an entrepreneurial development system, or ecosystem, approach as a way to build and grow a pipeline of entrepreneurial talent. Others document the importance of building community capacity as a prerequisite for the establishment of an effective ecosystem. This paper draws on field-based learning, primarily in Kansas and Australia, to develop the conceptual underpinnings for an approach to creating entrepreneurial communities that builds: (1) the capacity of the community to host and support an entrepreneurial ecosystem and (2) the capacity of entrepreneurs to grow themselves and their businesses in support of community economic development.

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  • Deborah M. Markley & Thomas S. Lyons & Donald W. Macke, 2015. "Creating entrepreneurial communities: building community capacity for ecosystem development," Community Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(5), pages 580-598, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:comdev:v:46:y:2015:i:5:p:580-598
    DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2015.1041539
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    1. Wei, Yifan, 2022. "Reprint of: Regional governments and opportunity entrepreneurship in underdeveloped institutional environments: An entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 51(9).
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    9. Morgan P. Miles & Mark Morrison, 2020. "An effectual leadership perspective for developing rural entrepreneurial ecosystems," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 54(4), pages 933-949, April.
    10. Grujić Milica, 2019. "The Strategic Role of Local Community and Significance in Sustainable Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development," Economic Themes, Sciendo, vol. 57(3), pages 365-379, September.

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