The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem : A Global Perspective

1 Introduction: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems -- 2 Building Composite Indicators for Policy Optimization Purposes -- 3 World Technology Frontier: Directed Technical Change and the Relevance of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem -- 4 The Entrepreneurship Paradox: The Role of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem on Economic Performance in Africa -- 5 The Monetization of the Regional Development and Innovation Index: Estimating the Cost of Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Policies in European Union Regions -- 6 Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in the European Union Regions: Identification of Optimal Ecosystem Configurations for Informed Policy -- 7 Measuring the Effects of Policies Targeting Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Application of the GMR Framework with REDI -- 8 Digital Inequality and the Signature of Digital Technologies and the Digital Ecosystem: Analysis of Deviations in the Rank-Size Rule of Internet Access Data -- 9 A Tale of Two Cities: How Arlington Won and Baltimore Lost in Battle for Amazon’s HQ2 -- 10 Measuring the Modern Entrepreneur: An Evaluation of Elon Musk -- 11 How to Tame the Beast? Toward a ‘Regulation Revolution’ in the Digital Platform Economy -- 12 The Ecology of Innovation: The Evolution of a Research Paradigm.