Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: How Networks and Social Capital Contribute to Entrepreneurial Success

因此，本研究项目探索企业家/企业如何相互互动和合作，交换资源，从而创造社会资本。令人特别感兴趣的是，创业生态系统的微观和宏观层面的协作模式是如何变化的。因此，这项研究符合ESRC关于生产率的战略重点。自2007年金融危机以来，UI&lt；正面临生产率停滞不前的局面，并正在落后于其他发达国家。解决生产率停滞的一种方法是鼓励和投资于创新想法和企业，以提振地区经济。这项研究特别侧重于生产力洞察网络列出的七个主题领域中的三个，即创新和企业、投资和基础设施。为了加深对创业中心提供的网络生成过程的理解，以及年轻企业如何利用它们，我们对生产率之谜提出了新的见解。

This research project therefore explores how entrepreneurs/ businesses interact and collaborate with each other, exchange resources, and, thereby, generate social capital. It is of specific interest how collaborative patterns vary between the micro and macro level of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Thus, this research is in line with the ESRC's strategic priority of productivity. The UI< is facing a flatlining of its productivity since the 2007 financial crises and is falling behind other developed countries. One way to solve this stagnation of productivity is to encourage and invest into innovative ideas and businesses to boost the regional economy. This research focusses in particular on three of the seven thematic areas set out by Productivity Insights Network, innovation and enterprise, investment and infrastructure. Aiming to enhance understanding the processes of network generation, provided by entrepreneurial hubs and how young businesses make use of them, we develop new insights to the productivity puzzle.