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Knowledge Economy & Education
Science Park: How to build a startup ecosystem in a university campus environment?
Annet Jantien Smit, Jos Gadet, Burton Hamfelt

“Startup ecosystem” is a relatively new concept that emphasizes the socio-economic context of tacit knowledge sharing. The components of a startup ecosystem are both the people interacting with each other (e.g. startup and grownup entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, angel investors, mentors, university professors and students) and the events where their interactions take place (e.g. meetups, hackatons, startup weekends, open coffees, accelerator programs, etc). Yet, most literature on startup ecosystems ultimately treats “place” as a spatially abstracted concept rather than as a location with specific qualitative attributes and programmatic features.

This is one of the case studies that has been developed during the Summer School Thinking City 2014.