2023 Volume 41 Pages 11-26
This research will show how Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (hereinafter, EE) is formed. While previous studies of EE have mainly focused on observing actors and factors, the accumulation of research on context has grown in depth in recent years. With Autio et al. (2014) identifying six types of contextual research trends (geographical, institutional/policy, social, organizational, industrial/technological and temporal), there has been further development in research on the relationship between context and EE formation in the last few years, with 27 papers published in 2019. This research will do a systematic review on 80 peer-reviewed papers published between 2001 and 2020 in English, introducing descriptive analysis and thematic analysis, and clarify (1) how the papers analyze each context and (2) how each context influence formation of EE. As a result of the analyses , it turned out that there is need to pay attention to both geographical and temporal contexts to design EE appropriately. Also, other contexts should be embedded in this process but research on interactions between each context is missing. This research introduces framework of Autio et al. (2014) and put focus on interactions among contexts that are to form EE rather than Entrepreneurial Innovation (hereinafter, EI) that takes place in EE and contribution of EI to regional economy. After 2014, much research has been done on these areas comprehensively, however, further research is needed to contribute to creation of EE and EI.
