Correspondence James A. Cunningham, Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Email: james.cunningham@northumbria.ac.uk Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of the entrepreneurial university in supporting the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in a post conflict, transitional economy. We developed a cross case analysis to identify common themes and patterns in the data. Our findings demonstrate that in a post conflict, transitional economy entrepreneurial universities entrepreneurial ecosystem development is constrained by a number of institutional factors including, structures, systems, leadership, strategies, and culture. We further identify that, when an entrepreneurial ecosystem system has been destroyed during conflict, these constraints present significant challenges to the evolution of the entrepreneurial ecosystem post conflict. Second, in a departure from other studies, our findings also outline the role of the entrepreneurial university in the unique evolution of the post conflict entrepreneurial ecosystem in Rwanda. We identify that the entrepreneurial ecosystem evolves through a number of stages including, embryonic, destruction, formation, and capacity building stages.

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创业大学在后冲突经济中建立创业生态系统中的作用：对卢旺达的探索性研究

通讯作者 James A. Cunningham，英国泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔诺森比亚大学纽卡斯尔商学院创业、创新和战略系。电子邮件：james.cunningham@northumbria.ac.uk 摘要 本文的目的是考察创业型大学在后冲突和转型经济中支持创业生态系统发展的作用。我们开发了一个跨案例分析来识别数据中的共同主题和模式。我们的研究结果表明，在后冲突中，转型经济创业型大学创业生态系统的发展受到许多制度因素的制约，包括结构、系统、领导力、战略和文化。我们进一步确定，当企业生态系统在冲突中遭到破坏时，这些限制因素对冲突后创业生态系统的演变提出了重大挑战。其次，与其他研究不同，我们的研究结果还概述了创业大学在卢旺达冲突后创业生态系统的独特演变中的作用。我们确定创业生态系统经历了多个阶段，包括萌芽、破坏、形成和能力建设阶段。