CV - Ben Spigel

## Benjamin Spigel - E-mail: [email protected] - Web site: www.benspigel.com ## Work History - 2024 to Present: Associate Professor, Babson College, Entrepreneurship Division - 2023 to 2024: Visiting Professor, Babson College, Entrepreneurship Division - 2018 to 2023: Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University of Edinburgh Business School, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Group - 2013 to 2018: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) & Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Edinburgh Business School, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Group ## Education History - 2008 — 2013: Ph.D - University of Toronto - Dissertation Title: The emergence of regional cultures and practices: A comparative study of Canadian software entrepreneurship - Dissertation Committee: Harald Bathelt (advisor), Meric Gertler, Pierre Desrochers, Olav Sorenson - 2006 — 2008: Masters of Arts - The Ohio State University - 2002 — 2006: Honours Bachelors of Arts - University of Toronto ### Books - B. Spigel. (2020). Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Theory, Practice, and Futures. Edward Elgar. ### Peer Reviewed Articles - B. Wurth, E. Stam, and B. Spigel (2023). Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Mechanisms. Foundations & Trends in Entrepreneurship. 19(3): 224-339. - K. Ramli, B. Spigel, N. Williams, S. Mawson, S. Jack. (2022) Managing through a crisis: Emotional leadership strategies of high-growth entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 pandemic. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. 35(1-2) 24-48 - F. Khalid and B. Spigel (2022). Accelerators, acceleration, and policy mobility in entrepreneurial ecosystems. Review of Entrepreneurship / Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat. 21(3) 47-74 - Spigel (2022). Examining the cohesiveness and nestedness entrepreneurial ecosystems: Evidence from British fintechs. Small Business Economics. 59(12) 1381-1399. - B. Spigel, F. Khalid and D. Wolfe. (2022) Alacrity: A new model for venture acceleration. International Entrepreneurship & Management Journal. - B. Wurth, E. Stam, and B. Spigel. (2021) Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem research program. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 46(3):729-778 - B. Spigel and T. Vinodrai. (2021). Meeting its Waterloo? Recycling in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems after Anchor Firm Collapse. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 33(7-8): 599-620 * 2021 Best Paper Winner: Ben Spigel & Tara Vinodrai, ‘Meeting its Waterloo? Recycling in entrepreneurial ecosystems after anchor firm collapse’, volume 33, issue 7-8. * Received 2019 Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Award for Best Empirical Paper. - B. Spigel, F. Kitagawa, C. Mason. (2020). A manifesto for researching entrepreneurial ecosystems. Local Economy 35(2): 482-495. - B. Spigel and H. Bathelt (2018). Questioning cultural narratives of economic development—an investigation of Kitchener-Waterloo. The Canadian Geographer - B Spigel and R. Harrison (2018). Towards a process theory of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 12(1): 151-168. - Most Read Article in Journal, 2018-2019; Web of Science Highly Cited Article from September 2020. - Received 2023 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Award for Best Paper - B. Spigel. (2017) Bourdieu, culture, and the economic geography of practice: entrepreneurial mentorship in Ottawa and Waterloo, Canada. Journal of Economic Geography 17(2): 287-310. - B. Spigel. (2017) The relational organisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 41(1): 49-72. - Most Read and Cited Article in Journal, 2018-2019; Web of Science Highly Cited Article from September 2020 - Received 2023 Helena Yli-Renko Research Impact Award. - B. Spigel. (2016) Developing and governing entrepreneurial ecosystems: The structure of entrepreneurial support programs in Edinburgh, Scotland. International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development 7(2):141-160. - C. Muellerleile, K. Strauss, B. Spigel and T. Narins. (2014). Economic geography and the financial crisis: Full speed ahead or missing the boat? The Professional Geographer 66(1):11-17. - B. Spigel. (2013) Bourdieuian approaches to the geography of entrepreneurial cultures. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 25(9-10); 804-818. - H. Bathelt, A. Munro and B. Spigel (2013). Challenges of transformation: Innovation, re-bundling and traditional manufacturing in Canada’s Technology Triangle. Regional Studies 47(7): 1111-1130. - H. Bathelt and B. Spigel (2012). The spatial economy of North American trade fairs. The Canadian Geographer 56(1): 18-38. - B. Spigel. (2012) The sources of regional variation in Canadian self-employment. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 15(3):340-361 - H. Bathelt and B. Spigel (2011). University spin-offs and regional policy in comparative perspective: The cases of Columbus (Ohio) and Toronto and Waterloo (Ontario). International Journal for Knowledge-Based Development 2(2):202-219. - B. Jones, B. Spigel, and E. J. Malecki. (2010) Blog links as pipelines to buzz elsewhere: The case of New York theatre blogs. Environment and Planning B 37(1):99-111 ### Work in Progress B. Spigel, K. Ramli, F. Kitagawa, D. Prokop, G. Campopiano, S. Mawson. C. Gherhes, T. Vorley. A Typology of Business Model Innovation in a Crisis: A Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis. In review at Journal of Technology Transfer. B. Spigel. Learning to Grow in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Under review at Small Business Economics M. Belitski, S. Hess, A. Wahl and B. Spigel. Theorizing Typologies of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Under review at Small Business Economics ## Edited Collections - M. Hong and B. Spigel (2024). The Kaleidoscope of Configurations: Actor/Role Configurations within Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Cities and Regions: Emergence, Evolution, and Future. Robert Huggins, Piers Thompson, Fumi Kitagawa, Christina Theodoraki, and Daniel Prokop (eds). Oxford University Press: Oxford - B. Spigel (2018). Envisioning a New Research Agenda for Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches. Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth Volume 20: Reflections and Extensions on Key Papers of the First Twenty-Five Years of Advances. Jerome Katz and Andrew Corbett (eds) pp. 127-147. * Awarded 2019 Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Author Contribution - E. Stam and B. Spigel. (2018) Entrepreneurial ecosystems. SAGE Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Small Business. R. Blackburn. D De Clercq, J. Heinonen, Z. Wang (eds). pp. 407-422. Sage: London - B. Spigel and E. Malecki (2017). Entrepreneurship and innovation. The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation. P. Cohendet, S. Henn, H. Bathelt and L. Simon (eds). pp 625-637 Elgar: London. - B. Spigel (2016). The Cultural embeddedness of regional innovation: A Bourdieuian perspective. Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation. R. Shearmur, C. Carrincazeaux and D. Doloreux (eds). pp 88-99. Elgar: London. - C. Brunelle and B. Spigel (2016). Path dependency, entrepreneurship, and economic resilience in resource-driven economies. Lessons from the Newfoundland offshore oil industry. Creating Resilient Economies: Entrepreneurship, Growth and Development in Uncertain Times. T. Vorley and N. Williams (eds). pp. 89-109. Elgar: London. - B. Spigel. (2016) Networking practices and networking cultures. Geographies of Entrepreneurship. Elizabeth Mack and Heifeng Qian (eds). pp. 32-47. Routledge: New York. - B. Spigel (2011). A series of unfortunate events: The growth, decline and rebirth of Ottawa’s entrepreneurial institutions. Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Development, Volume 22, Gary D. Libecamp and Sherry Hoskinson (eds). pp. 47-72. Emerald: London. ## Funding - 2020-2021 — ESRC / UKRI Grant “Entrepreneurial resiliency, innovation, and change during the COVID-19 Crisis.” £236,840 (Principal Investigator) - 2018 - 2021— ESRC-AHRC UK-Japan SSH Connections Grant “Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems in the UK and Japan - Place-Based Policy Scenarios and Options” £41,902 (Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Fumi Kitagawa) - 2018 - 2020 — Frank H. Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research Grant “Joining Fin with Tech: The Relationships Between Regional and Sectoral Entrepreneurial Ecosystems” $10,000 (Principal Investigator) - 2017 — Economic and Social Research Council Impact Grant “Mapping Edinburgh’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem” £17,527 (Principal Investigator) - 2015-2019 — Social Science and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant “Creating Digital Opportunity: Canada’s ICT Sector in Global Perspective — Waterloo Research Project” (Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Tara Vinodrai) $80,000 (CND) - 2015-2018 — Social Science and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant “Sources of Structural Changes: Understanding Economic Diversification in Canadian Regions” (Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Cedric Brunelle) $74,956 (CND) - 2015-2016 — University of Edinburgh Business School Early Career Venture Fund for project “Institutional and Cultural Governance of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems” £7,278 - 2014-2015 — British Academy / Leverhulme Small Research Grant for project “Entrepreneurial Innovation in Resource-Driven Economies: Pathways to Diversification or Economic Lock-in?” £8,250 - 2014 — Business School Staff Development Fund - £1,165 - 2011 — School of Graduate Studies Winter 2011 Conference Grant - $150 (CND) - 2010 — Travel Funding - The Associates of the University of Toronto Travel Award - $900 (CND) - 2010 — Travel Funding - Summer Institute in Economic Geography - $300 (CND) - 2008-2010 — Research Allowance, Innovation Systems Research Network - $8,000 (CND) - 2008-2012 — University of Toronto Fellowship - $6,500 (CND) - 2008 — Travel Grant, Department of Geography, Ohio State University - $450 (USD) - 2007 — Travel Grant, Department of Geography, Ohio State University - $450 (USD) - 2006 — Student Experience Program, Project Open Source | Open Access, Toronto Knowledge, Media and Design Institute - $1,440 (CND) ## Invited Talks - The Ones Who Walk Away from Boston: Engaging and Disengaging from Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Invited Talk at Katz Graduate School of Business University of Pittsburgh. November 15, 2024. - Inclusive Ecosystems: Why Aren’t Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Equitable. DIANA Research Talk. May 15, 2024. - Learning to Grow in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Nottingham University Research Seminar. February 11, 2024. - Learning in Ecosystems. Talk at the Fostering Innovative Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Conference. Copenhagen, June 5th 2023. - Learning as the Key Activity of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Talk at the European Council of Small Business. June 16, 2021 - Entrepreneurial Networks and Ecosystems during the Covid-19 Crisis: Evidence from the ERICC project. Talk at Cardiff University workshop “The Evolution, Persistence, and Success of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems.” Cardiff, March 25, 2021. - Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Theory, Practice, Futures. Keynote talk at GeCSO + RNI Forum Innovation: Common Knowledge and Innovation, Strasbourg, June 24 - 26, 2000 . Canceled due to COVID19 - Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in the Periphery of Emerging Economies: Placial Repurposing and Contingent Formation. Talk given at the 7th Annual Reading-UNCTAD International Business Conference, April 5, 2019. - The Theory, Practice, and Policy of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Talk given at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Department of Public Policy. March 19, 2019. - What we know and what we don’t know about how ecosystems work. Keynote Talk given at Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs Ecosystem Convening, January 29th, 2018. - Habitus, field, and practice in entrepreneurial ecosystems. Talk given the Symposium on Applying Bourdieu to Organisational and Management Studies, Glasgow. January 11th, 2018. - FinTech entrepreneurial ecosystems in Edinburgh. Talk given at the ESRC FinTech, Ecosystems and Accountability Network meeting, November 9th, 2017. - Entrepreneurial ecosystems as practices and resources: Resource acquisition and co-production in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Talk given at Imperial College Business School Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conversation on Ecosystems for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, June 22nd, 2017. - Entrepreneurship, innovation and diversification in times of crisis: Challenges and opportunities for Newfoundland. Talk given at the Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development, Memorial University, St. John’s Newfoundland, June 14th. 2016. - Resource Acquisition and Institutional Structure in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Talk given at Sheffield University Management School. May 20th, 2016. - Entrepreneurs’ acquisition and co-production of resources within entrepreneurial ecosystems. Talk given at the Scottish Entrepreneurship Research Seminar, The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. May 10th, 2016. - Innis’s ghost revisited: Entrepreneurial diversification and lock-in in resource dependent regions. Talk given at Memorial University Geography Department, St. John’s Newfoundland. October 17, 2014. - Economic change and entrepreneurial transformation in Canada’s capital city. Talk given at Capital Cities Conference, Centre for Regional Economic Development, University of Bern, Switzerland. March 12th, 2014. - Cultural change and entrepreneurial resiliency: Technology entrepreneurship and crisis in Ottawa. Talk given at the Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, Toronto, Ontario. January 15th, 2013. - Culture and Canadian entrepreneurship: Regional differences and patterns. Talk given at the Telfer School of Management, Ottawa, Ontario. October 29th, 2010. ## Awards - Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Best Paper Prize (2023, $5000) - Helena Yli-Renko Research Impact Award (2023, $5000) - Richard M Schulze Family Foundation — Schulze Publication Award (2020, $2,000) — Best Empirical Paper “Meeting its Waterloo? Recycling in entrepreneurial ecosystems after anchor firm collapse” (2019, $1,500) - Journal of Economic Geography — Best Referee Award (2016) - University of Edinburgh Business School Best Teaching Innovation Award (2015/2016) - University of Edinburgh Business School Best Feedback Award (2015/2016) - University of Edinburgh Business School Inspirational Teaching Award (2015/2016) - Nominee — Edinburgh University Student Association Teaching Award (2015/2016) - Joseph A. May Scholarship (2011, $1,000 CAD) - Department of Geography Graduate Expansion Fund Award - (2011, $1000 CND) - First Prize — ESRI Social Media Challenge (2010, $5,000 USD) - Second Place — Association of University Technology Managers Graduate Research Paper Prize (2010) ## Conference Proceedings - B. Spigel, K. Ramli, F. Kitagawa, D. Prokop, G. Campopiano, S. Mawson. C. Gherhes, T. Vorley. (2023). A Typology of Business Model Innovation in a Crisis: A Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis. Presented at Academy of Management Conference. August 8 - 11. - K. Ramli, N. Williams, S. Jack, S. Mawson and B. Spigel (2021). Covid-19 and Ambitious Entrepreneurship: Impacts on Mental Well-Being in a Crisis. Presented at Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference. June 8-11. * Selected for Frontiers of Entrepreneurial Research Proceedings - B. Spigel and T. Vinodrai. Meeting its Waterloo? Recycling in entrepreneurial ecosystems after anchor firm collapse. Presented at Academy of Management Conference, Boston, MA. August 8-12, 2019. - B. Spigel (2018). “If you build it they still might not come: Entrepreneurial ecosystems as fields of practice.” Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Meeting, Birmingham, UK. November 7-8. - B. Spigel and T. Vinodrai (2018). “Meeting its Waterloo: Recycling, Resilience, and Scaling in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems after Anchor Firm Collapse.” From startup to scale-up – Entrepreneurship, human capital, innovation and scaling up new businesses conference, Stockholm. October 29-30. - T. Vinodrai and B. Spigel (2018). “Anchor firm disrupted: Clusters, resilience and regional labour markets.” Presented at 4rd Annual Conference of the Global Forum on Productivity. Ottawa, June 27-29. - B. Spigel (2017). Entrepreneurial ecosystems as practices and resources: Resource acquisition and co-production in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Presented at Academy of Management Conference, Atlanta, GA. August 4-8, 2017. - T. Vinordrai and B. Spigel (2017). “Meeting its Waterloo? Entrepreneurship, anchor firms and the resilient region.” Presented at the 2017 Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston, MA. April 3-9, 2017. - B. Spigel (2017). “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as Practice: Ecosystem Engagement Strategies in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland”. Presented at the 2017 Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston, MA. April 3-9, 2017. - B. Spigel (2016). “Resource acquisition and co-production in entrepreneurial ecosystems.” Presented at the 19th Annual Uddevalla Entrepreneurship Research Symposium, London. June 28 - July 1. - B. Spigel (2016). “Resource acquisition and co-production in entrepreneurial ecosystems.” Presented at the Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Bodø, Norway. June 7-11. - B. Spigel and T. Vinodrai (2015). “Blossom or rot: Anchor firm collapse, entrepreneurship, and labour market effects”. Presented at the 2016 Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA. March 28 - April 2. - B. Spigel and T. Vinodrai (2015). “Did they stay or did they go? Digital talent and ICT anchor firm restructuring in Waterloo.” Presented at the Canadian Digital Opportunity Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON. April 28-29. - B. Spigel and C. Brunelle (2015). “Evolution, entrepreneurship and lock-in in resource-driven regional economies.” Presented at 2015 Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, IL. April 21-25 - B. Spigel (2015) “The relational dynamics and governance of entrepreneurial ecosystems: Evidence from Edinburgh.” Presented at 2015 Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, IL. April 21-25 - B. Spigel (2014). “Regional culture and networking techniques amongst Canadian entrepreneurs.” Presented at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, UK. August 27-29. - B. Spigel (2014). “The cultural governance of entrepreneurial ecosystems”. Presented at 17th Annual Uddevalla Entrepreneurship Symposium, Uddevalla, Sweden. June 12-14. - E. Malecki and B. Spigel (2013). “Entrepreneurship and innovation”. Presented at the 60th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Atlanta, GA, November 13-16. - B. Spigel (2013) “Regional cultures and entrepreneurial resiliency.” Presented at the 2013 Association of American Geographers Conference, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-13. - B. Spigel (2012) “Entrepreneurship and tolerance.” Presented at the 2012 Canadian Association of Geographers, Ontario Division Conference. Scarborough, Ontario, October 12-13. - B. Spigel (2012) “Regional cultures and entrepreneurial environments: A Bourdieuian approach.” Presented at the 2012 Experience the Creative Economy Workshop, Toronto, ON. June 19-22. - B. Spigel (2012) “Cultural contexts and entrepreneurial intentions.” Presented at the 2012 Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Fort Worth, TX, June 7-9. - B. Spigel (2012) “Regional cultural contexts and entrepreneurial intentions: A Bourdieusian approach.” Presented at the 2012 Association of American Geographers Conference. New York, NY, February 24-28. - B. Spigel. (2011) “The cultures of Canadian entrepreneurship.” Presented at the 2011 Canadian Association of Geographers Conference. Calgary AB, June 1-3. - B. Spigel. (2011) “Entrepreneurship and regional culture: A Bourdieusian perspective.” Presented at the 2011 Association of American Geographers Conference. Seattle, WA, April 12-16. - H. Bathelt and B. Spigel (2010) “The relational geography of North American Trade Fairs” Presented at the 2010 Association of American Geographers Conference. Washington D.C. April 17-21 - H. Bathelt, M. Munro and B. Spigel. (2010) “Challenges of transformation: innovation, re-bundling and traditional manufacturing in Canada’s Technology Triangle.” Presented at the 2010 Association of American Geographers Conference. Washington D.C. April 17-21 - B. Spigel. (2010) “Proximity, location and informal knowledge spillovers.” Presented at the Association of University Technology Managers Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA. March 17-20 - B.Spigel. (2009) “Propinquity and the environments of academic knowledge exchange.” Presented at the 2009 Association of American Geographers Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada. March 22-27 - B. Spigel. (2008) “The micro-geographies of academic knowledge transfer.” Presented at the 2008 Association of American Geographers Conference. Boston, Massachusetts. April 15-19 - L. Brown, S. Chung, M. Webb and B. Spigel. (2008) “Housing foreclosures in Columbus, Ohio: Where, who, why.” Presented at the 2008 Association of American Geographers Conference. Boston, Massachusetts. April 15-19. - B. Spigel. (2008) “What can early developers of Linux teach us about open knowledge?” Presented at Open Knowledge 2.0. London, England. March 15. - B. Spigel. (2007) “Transmission or Transmutation? The role of tacit knowledge and codification in the creation of the Linux operating system.” Presented at the 2007 Association of American Geographers Conference. San Francisco, California. April 16-22 - C. Rinner, B. Spigel and M Raubal. (2005) “User interface design for location-based decision services.” Presented at the 13th International Conference of Geoinformatics, Toronto Ontario. August 18th. ## Teaching Experience - Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (2023 - Present) - Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management (2024) - Course Designer and Organiser — Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation (2015 - 2019 Masters course on high-growth entrepreneurship and FinTech) - Program Director — MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2019-2022) - Course Organiser - Enterprise Consultancy Project (2016 - 2018 Honours capstone class) - Course Organiser - Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation in Context (2021 to present Masters level introduction to entrepreneurship theory and practice) - Course Designer and Organiser - Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (2014 to present Honours seminar on social and sustainable venture creation) - Course Instructor - New Economic Spaces (2012 - 2013 200 student introduction to economic geography) ## Consultancy Clients Scottish Government — GovTech cluster report Innovate UK — Scaling and Scale-ups report Government of Ontario — Sociocultural dynamics of creativity and innovation ## Other publications - B. Spigel (2020). Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: What They're Made of and How They Work. Entrepreneurship & Innovation Exchange, May 4. * Awarded 2020 Schulze Publication Award - B. Spigel, F. Kitagawa, C. Mason and H. Izushi (2020). A Manifesto for Researching Entrepreneurial Ecosystems - B. Spigel (2017). Mentoring vital to ensure Edinburgh carries on developing entrepreneurs. Op-Ed in The Times, February 28 - B. Spigel (2016). Entrepreneurship, innovation, and diversification during times of crisis: Challenges and opportunities for Newfoundland. University of Edinburgh Business School Policy White Paper - B. Spigel (2016). Edinburgh’s entrepreneurial and support ecosystem. University of Edinburgh Business School Policy White Paper. - B. Spigel (2016). Start-ups are booming, but our entrepreneurs need to learn to sell. Op-Ed in The Times, March 1 - B. Spigel, G. Spencer and D. Wolf (2013). Sociocultural Dynamics of Creativity and Innovation. Report to the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development. - H. Bathelt, A. Munro and B. Spigel (2011) Challenges of transformation: Innovation, re-bundling and traditional manufacturing in Canada’s Technology Triangle. Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography . - H. Bathelt, A. Munro and B. Spigel (2011) Industries innovate and prosper. Editorial in The Toronto Star, November 7. ## Book Reviews - Review of “The Innovation Union in Europe: A Socio-Economic Perspective on EU Integration” by Elias Carayannis and George Korres, eds. Journal of Regional Science 55(2): 324-5. - Review of “The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography” by Ron Boschma and Ron Martin, eds. Economic Geography Working Group (http://www.egrg.org.uk/bkreview.html#bk2011) - Review of “Managing Financial Risk: From Global to Local” by Gordan Clark, Adam Dixon and Ashby Monk, eds. Economic Geography Research Group (http://www.egrg.org.uk/bkreview2010_09.html) ## PhD Students - Phillip Riddle: Place and Competitive Advantage: A Qualitative Study of Financial Services in Edinburgh and Glasgow (Graduated 2018, now in private practice) - Augusto Rocha: Peer Support Networks in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (Graduated 2021, moved to role as post-doctoral research at St. Andrews University, now assistant professor at University of Edinburgh Business School) - Dina Ashour: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Times of Uncertainty: Evidence from Cairo and Scotland (Graduated 2024, now in private practice) - Fizza Khalid: Policy Mobility and Mutation in Pakistani Accelerators (Graduated 2023, now assistant professor at National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan) - Andrea Porras: Interaction Through Networking in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (Visiting PhD student from Universidad del Norte, 2018) - Meiling Hong: Cultural Influences on Chinese Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (Visiting PhD student from Jilin University, 2016-2017) ## Service Editorial Review Board, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (2020 - Present) University of Edinburgh Quarter-Mile Redevelopment Project Committee (2016 - 2019)