英国ロンドンのデジタル・メディア起業コミュニティ : 人的資源,グローバル・イノベーションと知識ネットワーク(<特集>英米のイノベーション先進地域のエコシステム)

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Entrepreneurship is seen as a crucial element of regional innovation and enterprise policy for the 'entrepreneurial region'. The paper discusses the roles that social networks and human capital play in the formation of 'born global' entrepreneurial start-up companies. The illustrative case study of digital media start-up communities in London highlights different forms of knowledge that underline the human capital formation of the start-up communities, and how new forms of networks connect different types of knowledge bases and skills leveraging the resources of nascent etrepreneurs. London's Silicon Roundabout provides a model of an entrepreneurial city-region, where different types of knowledge are combined by attracting highly educated talents including PhD graduates from top research universities in the UK, US as well as elsewhere. Deep analytical knowledge is networked through other intermediary knowledge, building entrepreneurial captal and absorptive capacity of the city region. The paper concludes by identifying future areas of study and critically examining the roles of policies and education and training institutions, especially universities, in responding to new entrepreneurial learning opportunities.