The innovation ecosystem term has increasingly been attracting the interest of scholars and
practitioners for fifteen years. Contrary to the flourishing landscape, knowledge in this field is …

Purpose The ecosystem perspective on innovation and business has emerged as the secret
sauce of innovative organizations. While its theoretical foundations are premised on …

Innovation ecosystem is an increasingly popular but all too often ambiguously utilized
concept across academia, policy and business. In their recent well-argued critique of the …

The innovation ecosystem construct has emerged as a promising approach in the literature
on strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship. It draws upon former business ecosystem …

Purpose: The popularisation of studies on ecosystem occurred, fundamentally, after the work
of Adner (2006) and began to gain theoretical strength after the study by Gomes et …

Purpose Innovation ecosystems have not been defined univocally. The authors compare the
different approaches to innovation ecosystems in the literature, the link with open innovation …

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 The concept of an innovation ecosystem, based on the idea of business ecosystem,
has increasingly grown in the literature on strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship …

Publications pushing the “innovation ecosystem” meme have added valuable dimensions to
the economic development discussion. The phrase has captured the imagination of policy …

In light of the scattered nature of extant ecosystem literature, we seek to (1) identify the
intellectual structure and theoretical roots of ecosystem literature within the broader field of …