1. Startup Communities
(emphasis on communities)
Norris Krueger, PhD
www.about.me/norriskrueger
7 November 2013
OECD

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3. 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…+

4. 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?

5. 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)

6. 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

7. Ecosystem 101?
• Misunderstood? (CW? Non-PC?)
• Messy
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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
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9. http://www.ecosystemmap.com
www.iempact.com
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10. Sociogram pic
• http://bit.ly/Karen_S
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11. Who do you want to be?
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12. Genealogy map
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13. Boise
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14. Feld’s Four?
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15. 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

16. 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

17. The question we need to ask?

18. Maintaining Momentum
• Norris Krueger, PhD
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norris.krueger[at]gmail.com
@entrep_thinking
LinkedIn, Facebook, G+
• Other expertise
– Peter Vogel
– Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
– GEW, WEF, UP Global

19. SWAG at the key to the best?
• A healthy entrepreneurial community is one
that offers multiple opportunities for
entrepreneurial learning – deep experiential
learning.