9 krueger oecd startup communities

Startup Communities(emphasis on communities)

Norris Krueger, PhDwww.about.me/norriskrueger

7 November 2013OECD

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What do we know about entrepreneurial ecosystems?

• Judging by definitional issues…– Not much

• Potentially depressing– Etzkowitz quotes– Universities more often barriers– Institutions more often constraints– “Amateur Night” in general [save us from…]

Good News?• Practitioners FAR ahead of us

• Think “community” or “system”

• Not hierarchical, but networked

• Bottom-up/supervenient phenomena

• DEFRAG? – Map then…– Karen Stephenson – sociogram model– Genealogical model?

Who is stepping up?

– Who actually know what they are doing… • Global Entrepreneurship Week (

www.unleashingideas.org) • UP Global / Startup Weekend (www.up.co)

• Kauffman (www.entrepreneurship.org)

• World Entrepreneurship Forum http://www.world-entrepreneurship-forum.com

• International Council for Small Business (www.icsb.org)

• Coneeect (www.coneeect.eu)

What does GEM say?

Top two predictors of TEA:• 1. Personal preparedness to venture

– Knows an entrepreneur – Mindset, not knowledge/skills per se

• (experiential >> formal ??)

• 2. Supportive social norms– What would your mother think?

• #3? Supportive business climate www.DoingBusiness.org

http://www.icsb.org/documents/Reynolds_NewFirmCreation.pdf

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Ecosystem 101?

• Misunderstood? (CW? Non-PC?)• Messy

– Dynamic– Interconnected– Filled with…. Humans– Network: neither/both hierarchies, organic

• Flows of resources: Gaps (and, um, non-gaps)• Feld’s Top Two?

– Bottom-up– Inclusive

• Key Leverage Points: Gatekeepers vs Connectors• Liaison-Animateur

http://www.ecosystemmap.comwww.iempact.com

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Sociogram pic

• http://bit.ly/Karen_S

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Who do you want to be?

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Genealogy map

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Feld’s Four?

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Brad Feld (book; also slideshare)

• 1. Bottom-up, entrepreneur-led– Not institutions– “Leaders and feeders”

• 2. Inclusive– “rising tide” policies– But also “T-shaped” (broad and wide)

• 3. Rallying Point(s)– Common cause, identity, events?

• 4. Long-term perspective

Are We There Yet?

Metrics and Governance• Levels/change: Peter Vogel• Bottlenecks: GEDI (Zoltan Acs)– e.g., support for dynamic capabilities

• Process: Markers of Right Path– http://bit.ly/EcoSys

The question we need to ask?

Maintaining Momentum

• Norris Krueger, PhD• norris.krueger[at]gmail.com

@entrep_thinkingLinkedIn, Facebook, G+

• Other expertise– Peter Vogel– Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation– GEW, WEF, UP Global

SWAG at the key to the best?

• A healthy entrepreneurial community is one that offers multiple opportunities for entrepreneurial learning – deep experiential learning.