ScholarOne - Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Disadvantaged Places: Spatial
Context, ‘Place’ and Policy
Abstract
Through a qualitative, semi-case study design, this paper explores the
role of place and place-based funding in enterprise support ecosystems
for entrepreneurs. The paper responds to Welter and Baker’s (2021) call
in this journal to give prominence to context (business, social,
institutional, and spatial) in the theorising of entrepreneurship. It
focusses on spatial context, theorising the concept of ‘place’ in
entrepreneurship. It achieves this through a consideration of business
support providers’ and nascent entrepreneurs’ accounts of the successes
and failures of policy and funding aimed at disadvantaged places and
people in Devon and Cornwall, Southwest England.