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Innovation and Resource Management Strategies for Startups Development
An ecosystem refers to a complex, interconnected community of living organisms (plants, animals, microorganisms) and their physical environment (which includes soil, water, air, and climate) within a specific geographical area.
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Strategies for Developing Entrepreneurial Start-Up Scalability and Sustainability
Yanamandra Ramakrishna (School of Business, Skyline University College, Sharjah, UAE), Ruchi Agarwal (Independent Researcher, UAE), and Logaiswari Indiran (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-2077-8.ch011
Abstract
Entrepreneurship is a system of economic players, government, and other mediators who take initiatives to start new businesses, ventures, and start-ups to produce goods and services to meet the need of society in several ways. Entrepreneurship ecosystem (EE) is a system that nurture a proper path for businessmen to start new business and promote entrepreneurial activities. This chapter proposes strategies to develop entrepreneurial ecosystems for achieving startup scalability and sustainability using systematic literature review. The implications of this research will add value to the budding startup owners, government, academicians, researchers, and entrepreneurs. The outcome of this research will enable all stakeholders to understand strategies to manage the resources of startups in an optimal manner for scalability and sustainability.
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The Personal Brand V.A.L.U.E. Career Development Tool: A Multi-Perspective and Interdisciplinary Framework
Consideration of how to position one’s brand within a sustainable career ecosystem can help students prepare for and undertake the university-work transition, and prepare them for further career transitions across their working lives
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An Analysis of Privacy Language in the Scholarly Literature on Mental Health Apps
This term which strictly refers to relationships between biological organisms in the environment has been broadened to refer to the environment created by relationships between humans and information systems.
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Fostering Innovation and Value Creation Through Ecosystems: Case of Digital Business Models and Digital Platforms
Network of employees, customers, suppliers, partners, public sector and other stakeholders that together co-create value for the organization and the ecosystem.
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Electronic Government
Is an economic community that consists of a collection of interconnected organizations and individuals. The economic community produces goods and services of value to the consumer, which are also part of the ecosystem.
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The Past, Present, and Future of E-Business Models
Interrelated parts, dimensions, and organizations acting as a unit.
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Privacy Concerns in the VR and AR Applications in Creative Cultural Industries: A Text Mining Study
A biological term that has been extended to study different operators/players in a specific industry to describe the composition of major and minor players. For example, the AR and VR ecosystem is made up for different industry sectors such as software development, 360 degree video developers, arcade, agency, education, network, university, accelerator, platform, corporate lab, tech vendor, among others.
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Management Education for Integrity: Raising Ethical Standards in Online Management Classes
Refers to the interdependence of individuals within an academic course as well as the larger environment.
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Green Innovation and Sustainable Urban Ecosystems
Biological system constituted by a community of living beings and the natural environment in which they live.
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Strategic Transformational Transition of Green Economy, Green Growth, and Sustainable Development
Biological system constituted by a community of living beings and the natural environment in which they live.
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Fostering Collaborative Open Simulation for Next-Gen Enterprise Learning Ecosystems
An interconnected, complex system that represents multiple elements that combine to form a holistic environment.
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Information Systems Curriculum Using an Ecological Model
In the context of this article, the ecosystem represented by the curriculum in a university information systems department contains (at least) the following “species”: lecturers, researchers, students, professional bodies, university administrators, and representatives of the computer industry.
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Impact of Pesticides on Invertebrates in Aquatic Ecosystem
It is a segment of nature consisting of biotic and abiotic components, both interacting with each other and exchanging materials between them.
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Integrating Medication and Health Monitoring Systems
An existing infrastructure of automated systems.
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The R&D-Based Start-Up
The economic, social, and regulatory environment that the TSU come into interactions with. This includes funding sources, employment, and social laws, as well as other relevant regulatory measures pertaining to the activity and livelihood of the TSU.
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Biodiversity and Impacts of Climate Change in Home Gardens: Evidence From a Study in West Bengal, India
A dynamic complex interaction of biotic and abiotic components of environment in a given region.
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Belonging to Green: Environmental Attributes of Place Attachment in Sarajevo
An ecological unit that consist of a complex system of interactions between living groups (e.g., plants, animals, fungi, microorganisms) and the environment in which they live.
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Towards Places and Ecosystems: The Integrated Management of Locations, Destinations, and the Living Space
This term is derived from natural sciences and refers to a group of living and non-living components, their environment and all the interactions within. It has been adopted in various scientific disciplines, including business, entrepreneurship or regional development.
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Case Experiences With Immigrants on Workforce Training Using Virtual Reality
Distributed and adaptive system that has ability to self-organize, scale and be sustainable.
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Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Issues in Platform Management: An African Perspective
A system composed of the interrelationship of networks and interaction of organisms.
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A Multicloud-Based Deep Learning Model for Smart Agricultural Applications
The interactive system formed from all living organisms and their abiotic environment within a given area. It covers and comprises the entire globe, biomes at the continental scale, or minor, well-circumscribed systems such as a small pond.
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Assessing Urban Ecosystem Services: Different Methodological Approaches Applied in Brazil, Germany, and Portugal
An assemblage composed of the interactions among biological components (such as plants, animals, microorganisms) and abiotic components (chemical and physical elements like water, air, soil, minerals).
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International Framework of Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries: With Reference to Policy and Legislative Practices of Malaysia
An ecological community of living organisms interconnecting each other and with their physical environment in a given area.
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Assessing Urban Ecosystem Services: Different Methodological Approaches Applied in Brazil, Germany, and Portugal
An assemblage composed of the interactions among biological components (such as plants, animals, microorganisms) and abiotic components (chemical and physical elements like water, air, soil, minerals).
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Will Social Media and Its Consumption Converge or Diverge Global Consumer Culture?
A biological term that describes a community of living organisms, and by extension, of different entities. The term has been stretched to study different operators/players/companies in a specific industry to describe the arrangement of major and minor players in the industry.
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Powering the Sustainable Development Goals for Green Growth in Nigeria
The interrelation of the various groups of fauna and flora in the environment to sustain lives of the various living organisms on a sustainable basis.
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Emerging Contaminants: Pollution Control and Abatement
Plants and animals and how they relate with their physical environment.
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Promotion and Preservation of Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Traditional Environmental Knowledge of Garo Communities in Bangladesh
It is a community or group of living organisms that live in and interact with each other in a specific environment.
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Emerging Blockchain Applications in Mobility: Use Case-Specific Blockchain Types, Consensus Mechanisms, and Implementation Challenges
Business arrangement between two or more organizations, acting as participants to create and share collective value for some targeted customers.
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Transitions in Student Motivation During a MUVE-Based Ecosystem Science Curriculum: An Evaluation of the Novelty Effect
A community that includes all the living and nonliving things found in a certain area.
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Challenges of Interoperability in an Ecosystem
The ecosystem is the real-life environment business and governmental partners form to interact, share, and execute goods, products, and services relevant to a common business purpose.
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Digital Transformation of Small and Medium Businesses
Is an economic community that consists of a collection of interconnected organizations and individuals. The economic community produces goods and services of value to the consumer, which are also part of the ecosystem.
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The Influence of the Local Ecosystem on Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Study With Entrepreneurs and Potential Entrepreneurs of Beja (Portugal) and Huelva (Spain)
A set of interrelated elements within a specific territorial context. Relations of interdependence, communication and mutual influence are fundamental to the internal dynamics of any ecosystem.
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Reality-Creating Technologies as a Global Phenomenon
A biological term that describes a community of living organisms and lifeless elements such as mineral, air, water, and soil. The term has been extended to study different players in a specific system. For example, the AR and VR ecosystem is made up for different industry sectors such as software development, 360 degree video developers, arcade, agency, education, network, university, accelerator, platform, corporate lab, tech vendor, among others.
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Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas: Biodiversity Under Climate Change
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Integrating Ecosystem Management and Environmental Media for Public Policy on Public Health and Safety
A system refers to a collection of independent parts or events that make up a whole. Each part has a specific function, even though the expression of their roles depends on the proper functioning of all the other parts. The whole system fails to function without input from outside the system which acts to produce some output. Ecosystems combine biological communities and the physical environments associated with them in which nutrients and energy move through in loops or cycles. In other words, ecosystem is the interacting system of a biological community and its environmental surroundings.
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We Are Not Part of Nature; We Are Nature: An African View on One Health
A biological system composed of a community of organisms and the nonliving environment with which it interacts [same for Environment and Ecology].
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The Role of Natural and Cultural Heritage in the Development of Tourism: Case of Georgia
A natural complex formed by living organisms and their living environment.
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Driving Forces and Factors of Amazon Effects: From Online Bookstores to Cloud Services
A self-expandable network of organizations composed of suppliers, distributors, customers, competitors, government agencies, and others, and engaged in mutual competition and cooperation. Within the ecosystem, members are flexible and adaptable and are affected by others.
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Typical Aspects of the Traditional Food Behavior Within the Romanian Rural Environment
The complex of living organisms, their physical environment, and all their interrelationships in a particular unit of space.
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Learning Ecosystem for Open and Distance Learning
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
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Associations Between Climate, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services in the Pre-Sahara: Case Study of Tafilalet, Morocco
Is a set of living organisms that interact with each other and with the environment in which they live (soil, water, soil, etc.).
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Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals Through Environmental Education
Any natural unit or entity including living and non-living parts that interact to produce a stable system through cyclic exchange of materials.
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Environmental Law and Green Constitutions
An ecosystem is a biological system made up of a community of living organisms and the physical environment in which they interact. It is a unit made up of interdependent organisms that share the same habitat (including people). “The Constitution must evolve in its consideration of the territory”, says Florencia Ortúzar, “to be considered as much more than the geographical terrain over which Chile has sovereignty”. “The territory must be understood in terms of the ecosystems it houses.”
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Ecosystem Services, Climate Change, and Food Security
An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.
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Learning Biology With Situated Learning in Mexican Zapoteca Tele-Secondary Schools
Group of living things or biotic factors, and non-living things or abiotic factors, which interact together as a system.
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Organizational Structure at the Contemporary Interface
A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.
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Breaking Barriers to Promote Sustainable Development in the Wine Industry: A Theoretical Study on the Role of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Approach
Adapted from biology, referring to a group of living organisms that interact with each other in a specific environment.
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Impact of the Polar Ice Caps Melting on Ecosystems and Climates
An ecosystem is a living organism’s community in combination with the nonliving elements of its surroundings, communicating as a system.
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Status of Indian Wetlands With Special Reference to Pesticides and Their Impact
An ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (like air, water, and mineral soil), interacting as a system.
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Project-Based Learning (PBL) in a Higher Education Project: Introduction of an Accelerated PBL (A-PBL) Model
Composed of several stakeholders including graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, staff, institutions, scientific societies, and funders, each with a role to play ( Hagan, 2019 )
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Digital Platforms Focused on Audiovisual
Relates to the way that all these different creation agents live in close proximity to each other and how they interact with each other.
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An Ecosystem Approach to Human Resource Management: Dialogues in a COVID-19 Context
Refers to a group of interacting yet semi-autonomous entities or actors that depend on each other's activities and therefore are somewhat hierarchically controlled.
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Entrepreneurial Motivation to Participate in the Circular Economy
The relationship between all living organisms, including humans, and their habitat (the environment). Thus, the ecosystem includes the environment, plants and animals (including humans).
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Developing Entrepreneurial Competencies for Secondary Schools as Social Enterprises: Inclusiveness in Decision-Making Processes
For the purpose of this chapter, an ecosystem is intermediaries who support the school and forms part of the social system to which the school belong and the community where its located.
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Viability of the Sustainable Development Ecosystem
A bounded system of living and interdependent entities in dynamic interaction with their environment, influencing and being influenced by their environment. Here, a socioecological system such as a community or organization.
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Climate Change and Diseases of Plants and Animals: A Study in Home Gardens of West Bengal, India
A dynamic complex interaction of biotic and abiotic components of environment in a given region.
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Bio-Farming as the Basis of Environmentally-Sustainable Arable Farming at the Time of Global Warming
Is a system (biogeocenosis) consisting of a community of living organisms (biocenosis) and their habitat (biotope), as well as interconnections between them, exchanging matter and energy between them.
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Circular Economy and Circular Business Models in the Actual Global Ecological Context: Various Approaches
Ensemble formed by biotope and biocenosis, in which close relationships are established between both organisms and between them and abiotic factors.
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Employing Digital Reality Technologies in Art Exhibitions and Museums: A Global Survey of Best Practices and Implications
A biological term that describes a community of living organisms and lifeless elements such as mineral, air, water, and soil. This term has been extended to study different operators/players in a specific industry. For example, the AR and VR ecosystem is made up for different industry sectors such as software development, 360 degree video developers, arcade, agency, education, network, university, accelerator, platform, corporate lab, tech vendor, among others.
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Do Smart City Solutions Contribute to the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals?: Case of Istanbul
Integration of all necessary components such as people, statutory bodies, private sector organisations, NGOs, universities, policies, laws and processes for the effective and efficient smart city outcomes.
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Reconfiguring Responsibility in International Clinical Trials: A Multicultural Approach
A biological system composed of a community of organisms and the nonliving environment with which it interacts (same for environment and ecology).
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University-Based Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Evidence From Technology Transfer Policies and Infrastructure
A network of interactions among organisms, and between organisms and their environment. Such system can be of any size and usually is encompassed in a specifically limited space.
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FinTech's Interpretations and Tunisian Ecosystem Analysis
Defines the necessary infrastructure elements for the development of the Fintech area in a country
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A Panel Asymmetric Causality Between Health and Climate Change: Empirical Evidence From EU Regions
Interactions between living things and the inanimate environment surrounding them.
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Digitally Enabled Infrastructure
The sustainable ecosystem that improving research and advancement. A digital ecosystem requires to be effective, self-supporting, and scalable. In the connection of the schools and Institutions, this means a technological platform that supports learning—course content, homework, grades, shared documents, and research tools—that works concurrently seamlessly.
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