Innovation ecosystems: A conceptual review and a new definition
University of Cambridge · Chalmers University of Technology
Abstract
The concept of innovation ecosystems has become popular during the last 15 years, leading to a debate regarding its relevance and conceptual rigor, not the least in this journal. The purpose of this article is to review received definitions of innovation ecosystems and related concepts and to propose a synthesized definition of an innovation ecosystem. The conceptual analysis identifies an unbalanced focus on complementarities, collaboration, and actors in received definitions, and among other things proposes the additional inclusion of competition, substitutes, and artifacts in conceptualizations of innovation ecosystems, leading to the following definition: An innovation ecosystem is the evolving set of…
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2Topics & keywords
- Ecosystem
- Relevance (law)
- Set (abstract data type)
- Conceptual framework
- Knowledge management
- Competition (biology)
- Conceptual model
- Business
- Industry, innovation and infrastructure