Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Yas Motoyama has published “The Evolution of an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in St. Louis,” a chapter in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Cities and Regions. The book is edited by Robert Huggins, Piers Thompson, Fumi Kitagawa, Christina Theodoraki, and Daniel Prokop.

The past decade marked a renewed interest in studies of entrepreneurship and local systems. A bibliometric search demonstrates that studies about local entrepreneurship systems more than doubled during the second decade of the twenty-first century (Malecki, 2018; Qian, 2018). The earlier term ‘entrepreneurial environment’ was replaced by ‘entrepreneurial ecosystem’ in the latter half of the 2010s (Malecki, 2018). It became evident that entrepreneurship refers to not only an act of an individual entrepreneur, but also a locally based support system that includes a range of other supporters and resources. In addition to journals of economic geography and urban planning, major journals in economics and management studies, including Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Small Business Economics, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, and Industrial and Corporate Change, have published special issues on entrepreneurship ecosystems.

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