Entrepreneurial ecosystems constructed by disadvantaged entrepreneurs often exist beside, within, and in opposition to 'mainstream' ecosystems focused on high growth high technology entrepreneurial ventures.
Disadvantaged Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem addresses the lack of current research concerning disadvantage using an entrepreneurial ecosystem lens, and the failure of entrepreneurship policy to widen engagement in entrepreneurship for disadvantaged people and places. Drawing together issues affecting disadvantaged entrepreneurs as they struggle to access, interact with, and benefit from, the traditional entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE), these findings highlight the importance of their motives for entrepreneurial activity, their resources, and how access to these are affected by issues such as gender and migrant status.
The research in this book also suggests policymakers need targeted, supportive, business-support programs taking into consideration the multiple challenges disadvantaged entrepreneurs typically face.
About the Author: David Grant Pickernell is Professor of Small Business and Enterprise Development at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Current research focuses on enterprise development policy and roles of universities in innovation and enterprise.
Martina Battisti is a Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France. Her research is centred on small business and entrepreneurship particularly factors contributing to growth and innovation.
Zoe Dann is Associate Dean (Students) and Senior Lecturer in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship and innovation and making learning authentic, as an enterprise educator.
Carol Ekinsmyth is a Principle Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is an economic geographer with interests in work/labour, particularly entrepreneurship and self-employment in the creative industries.
