The campus as entrepreneurial ecosystem: the University of Chicago

This paper employs Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis of American democracy to construct a framework for understanding the U.S. university campus as an entrepreneurial ecosystem. One question that immediately comes to mind when studying ecosystem performance is what the proper unit of a...

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Published in:Small business economics Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 75 - 95
Main Authors: Miller, David J., Acs, Zoltan J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Springer 01.06.2017
Springer US
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
20th century
American frontier
Business and Management
Case studies
College campuses
Colleges & universities
Democracy
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Governance
Industrial Organization
Innovations
Management
Microeconomics
United States > US
Campus
M1
Growth
American exceptionalism
I2
Frontier
B1
B2
New venture creation
L26
Innovation
Higher education
Ecosystem
Frederick Jackson Turner
Unicorns
ISSN:0921-898X, 1573-0913
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Summary:This paper employs Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis of American democracy to construct a framework for understanding the U.S. university campus as an entrepreneurial ecosystem. One question that immediately comes to mind when studying ecosystem performance is what the proper unit of analysis is: the country, the state, the city, the region, or something smaller, like an incubator or accelerator? This paper suggests that the open, innovative American frontier that closed at the end of the twentieth century has reemerged in the entrepreneurial economy on the U.S. campus. The contemporary campus entrepreneurial ecosystem offers the characteristics of Turner's frontier available assets, liberty, and diversity while creating opportunity, and fostering entrepreneurship and innovation. A case study of the University of Chicago explores governance of the campus as an entrepreneurial ecosystem and the output produced by that campus ecosystem.
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ISSN:0921-898X
1573-0913
DOI:10.1007/s11187-017-9868-4