Entrepreneurship ecosystems in the examples of Portugal and Estonia

• Autor(a) principal: Tatrik, Kreet
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19095
• topic: Entrepreneurship; New firm growth; Startup; Startup financing; Empreendedorismo; Crescimento de novas empresas; Financiamento de startups

The time we are living in can be considered an era of the revolution of technology and increasing interconnectedness, that has been caused by the ever-enhancing globalization process. As a result, various novel concepts pertaining to the new economies, technology and entrepreneurship have emerged. This dissertation has set the focus to explore the concept of entrepreneurship ecosystems, which is used to describe the actors, the interconnectedness occurring between the actors and the overall environment where entrepreneurs and startups operate in. The aim of the thesis is to assess what drives the success of said ecosystems, how can such favourable environments come into being, and to provide insights as to how two relatively small European countries in the opposite ends of the continent, such as Portugal and Estonia, have managed to emerge as significant startup hubs. In order to achieve the research objectives set and to answer the research questions posed, primary research in the form of conducting semi-structured interviews with the actors operating within the Estonian and Portuguese entrepreneurship ecosystems has been performed. Based on the primary data collected and the secondary data reviewed analysis has been performed by using qualitative research methods and conclusions have been made accordingly.