City-level institutions and perceived entrepreneurial ecosystem’s growth orientation

David B. Audretsch; Maksim Belitski; Georg Maximilian Eichler; Tomasz Mickiewicz; Erich Schwarz

doi:10.1080/00343404.2025.2478066

City-level institutions and perceived entrepreneurial ecosystem’s growth orientation

David B. Audretsch
, Maksim Belitski
, Georg Maximilian Eichler
, Tomasz Mickiewicz
, Erich Schwarz

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Abstract

This study uses both secondary and primary data on perceptions of 1789 ecosystem actors from 17 cities in Europe to perform an empirical analysis of three institutional dimensions: regulatory, cultural values and socio-cultural practices – and tests their association with the entrepreneurial ecosystem’s growth orientation. As a result, we develop a framework for the entrepreneurial ecosystem’s factors and provide policy recommendations for those interested in supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem’s growth orientation in cities. Among other conclusions, the findings suggest a positive association between the socio-cultural practices of environmental sustainability behaviour in businesses with entrepreneurial ecosystem’s growth orientation.

Original language	English
Article number	2478066
Number of pages	18
Journal	Regional Studies
Volume	59
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2478066
Publication status	Published - 10 Apr 2025

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Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.

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This project received funding from the British Council Creative Spark programme 2018 [grant agreement number EV16041W] between the British Council and the University of Reading, UK.

Keywords

Entrepreneurial ecosystem
institutional theory
city
regulation
Environmentalism
Sustainability
growth
Cluj

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