Contents: 1. Introduction: entrepreneurial ecostystems and the diffusion of startups / Sharon Alvarez, Elias G. Carayannis, Giovanni Battista Dagnino and Rosario Faraci
2. Mapping entrepreneurial ecosystems inquiry: a content analysis of the analysis of the literature and its implications / Anna Minà and Giovanni Battista Dagnino
3. Linking entrepreneurial and innovation ecostystems: the case of AppCampus / Llewellyn D. W. Thomas, Dmitry Sharapov and Erkko Autio
4. Antecedents of firm-level entrepreneurship: how organizational design coordinates and controls the firm's entrepreneurial ecostystem / Nicolai J. Foss and Jacob Lyngsie
5. Industry specificity and the effect of internal social capital in reward-based crowdfunding / Vincenzo Butticè and Massimo G. Colombo
Accessing the creative ecosystem: evidence from UK fashion design micro enterprises / Alison Rieple, Jonathan Gander, Paola Pisano, Adrian Haberberg and Emily Longstaff
7. Business incubators and entrepreneurial networks: a methodology for assessing incubator effectiveness and performance / Emanule Parisi, Angelo Miglietta and Dario Peirone
8. Towards "skarse" entrepreneurial ecosystems: using agent-based simulation of entrepreneurship to reveal what makes regions tick / Elias G. Carayannis and Mike Provance
9. Looking beyond the current status of the conversation on entrepreneurial ecosystems and the diffusion of startups: where do we go from here? / Giovanni Battista Dagnino and Elias G. Carayannis.