This paper explores the potential of considering entrepreneurial ecosystems as a bridging concept that enables a trans-disciplinary exchange. We aim to contribute to the debate by offering a perspective that takes entrepreneurial ecosystems out of their systemic—often geographically fixed—notion of administrative and territorial boundaries by offering a novel conceptual understanding of it. So far, entrepreneurial ecosystems are appreciated for first exhibiting conceptual strengths in terms of integrating entrepreneurs as economic actors (rather than firms as the smallest unit of analysis), and, second, considering entrepreneurship as a process that focuses on the co-evolution of entrepreneurial activities and their institutional environment. Criticism of this concept arises on its simplification by translating social elements into entrepreneurial ecosystem terminologies and on focusing on quantifiable indicators for measuring and comparing regional ecosystems rather than appreciating the complexity and interrelatedness of qualitative dimensions and their temporal dynamics. Against this background, we first argue for expanding the debate on entrepreneurial ecosystems by paying particular attention to the spatial as well as to temporal dynamics of entrepreneurship and its environment. Second, we regard entrepreneurial ecosystems as a communicative bridge that enables a fruitful exchange between academic disciplines and practitioners rather than approaching the concept as a mono-disciplinary theoretical framework.

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创业生态系统作为一个桥梁概念？对创业和区域发展辩论的概念性贡献

本文探讨了将创业生态系统视为实现跨学科交流的桥梁概念的潜力。我们的目标是通过提供一个视角，通过提供对创业生态系统的系统性（通常是地理上固定的）行政和领土边界的概念，提供对它的新概念理解，从而为辩论做出贡献。到目前为止，创业生态系统因首先展示将企业家整合为经济参与者（而不是企业作为最小分析单位）方面的概念优势而受到赞赏，其次，将创业视为关注创业共同进化的过程。活动及其制度环境。对这一概念的批评源于其将社会要素转化为创业生态系统术语的简化，并侧重于衡量和比较区域生态系统的可量化指标，而不是欣赏定性维度及其时间动态的复杂性和相互关联性。在此背景下，我们首先主张通过特别关注创业及其环境的空间和时间动态来扩大关于创业生态系统的辩论。其次，我们将创业生态系统视为一种沟通桥梁，可以实现学科和从业者之间富有成效的交流，而不是将这一概念视为单一学科的理论框架。