DEEM: Dynamic Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Monitoring

Our vision is to build an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Lab, where we can gain novel insights into nascent entrepreneurship and new venture emergence and develop a wider entrepreneurship research program around the data. 

• Build a traceable and consistent longitudinal dataset for entrepreneurial ecosystem research
• Detect startups pre-registration and follow the cohort over time
• Conduct a yearly panel survey for the BW startup population analyzing different entrepreneurship research constructs (e.g., novelty, bricolage, identity, etc.)
• Publish yearly evidence-based policy reports
• Build an index to evaluate nascent entrepreneurial potential
• Publish the dataset for internal and external research purposes

Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) are critical for economic growth and innovation within territories. However, our understanding of how EEs work is limited by the lack of comprehensive datasets.

The DEEM. project aims to create a new dataset for EE measurement using a dynamic ecosystem monitoring approach that addresses four key limitations of existing research:

• Lack of comprehensive local measures for EE elements
• Failure to capture more detailed founder data
• Ignorance of early-stage entrepreneurship (i.e., entrepreneurial potential)
• Reliance on single-source data (e.g., archival OR self-reported data)

The DEEM. dataset will complement prior research with novel insights into the effects of actors and factors at multiple spatial levels (state-region-district), nascent entrepreneurship, and the relationship between entrepreneurs and their local EE.

The DEEM. project will help us to better understand how EEs work and how they can be supported to create jobs and innovation for sustainable regional development over time.