Applying the Ecosystem Metaphor to Entrepreneurship: Uses and Abuses. (December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Isenberg, Daniel J.
• Other Names: Gundlach Gregory T. guest-editor.; Moss Diana guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Antitrust bulletin. Volume 61:Number 4(2016)
• Page Start: 564
• Page End: 573
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Subjects: entrepreneurship -- entrepreneurship ecosystems -- entrepreneurship policy -- economic development -- economic policy; Antitrust law -- United States -- Periodicals; Restraint of trade -- United States -- Periodicals; 343.73072105
• DOI: 10.1177/0003603X16676162
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-603X

Abstract

This article uses a comparison of the generic features of natural ecosystems and the popular use of the term "entrepreneurship ecosystems" and identifies five mistakes in the way the ecosystem metaphor is applied from the natural sciences: the creation mistake, the centralized control mistake, the geography mistake, the intention mistake, and the entrepreneur-centrality mistake.