Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Evolving Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Rapid technological change, geopolitical tensions, climate transitions, and shifting investment landscapes have fundamentally altered the conditions under which entrepreneurship emerges and grows. Entrepreneurial ecosystems are no longer understood as stable collections of institutions and actors, but as dynamic systems that continuously adapt, reorganize, and evolve in response to persistent uncertainty. Explaining these evolutionary processes has therefore become one of the central challenges in contemporary entrepreneurship research.

Recent scholarship has increasingly moved beyond identifying the structural components of entrepreneurial ecosystems toward uncovering the mechanisms that shape their development and long-term performance. Questions surrounding adaptive capabilities, collective resource mobilization, community embeddedness, knowledge mobility, and sustainable value creation now occupy the forefront of theoretical inquiry. Together, these perspectives offer a richer understanding of how entrepreneurial ecosystems generate resilience, innovation, and renewal across diverse regional and institutional contexts.

This issue brings these emerging conversations into a coherent intellectual dialogue by examining entrepreneurial ecosystems through complementary theoretical lenses. Rather than viewing ecosystem evolution as a linear process, the contributions collectively demonstrate how adaptation, coordination, social cohesion, knowledge dynamics, and sustainability interact to shape entrepreneurial outcomes. In doing so, they advance a more integrated perspective on ecosystem evolution while opening new directions for theory development and future research.