Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Strategy: a New Paradigm for Entrepreneurship Development

Abstract1
Competitiveness of entrepreneurship makes it a critical strategy in global
economy. But Iran's position in the field of entrepreneurship, according to available
capacities and based on ten indicators of business is not so desirable. So that Iran in
terms of "business blossoming" has been ranked 93th among the 144 countries and
has ranked it in the 16th place among 20 countries in the 2012-2013 Annual Report
which with "Qatar" as the first country in the region (with the rank 11th among 144
countries), 82 ranks away. It seems less attention has been paid to capacities and
deficiencies in this sector and also the need for transformation it in a systematic
approach. However, entrepreneurship development needs to take all the capacities
and empowerment of the region into account. In fact, planning for the
entrepreneurship development requires attention to various issues from different
aspects which makes clear the necessity of applying the ecosystem approach.
Entrepreneurial ecosystem is a new approach to thinking and acting for
entrepreneurship development, so that all essential systems in the entrepreneurship
development and how their interaction with each other will be considered. This
entrepreneurship ecosystem consists of a dozen or so elements which can
consolidate into six domains market, policy, financial capital, culture; supports and
human capital. Thus in this article we discuss the entrepreneurial ecosystem and
the need for systemic perspective at entrepreneurship