Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Unexpected Places

Veneta Andonova is Associate Professor of Business Strategy in the School of Management at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Previously, she has worked at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, ITAM, Mexico, and the American University in Bulgaria. In 2018 she published her first book, Multilatinas: Strategies for Internationalisation. Milena S. Nikolova teaches Marketing in the Executive MBA and the undergraduate business program at the American University in Bulgaria. Previously, she studied marketing at the George Washington University (GW) School of Business, USA. Dilyan Dimitrov is a co-founder of Eleven Accelerator Venture Fund, where he has scouted and invested in over 100 start-ups in Central and Eastern Europe since 2012. Prior to this, as the Vice President of Bedminster Capital Management Dilyan worked in areas such as healthcare, media and financial services.

Part I. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Numbers and Quotes.- 1. What is an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem?.- 2. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in the Balkan Peninsula.- 3. The Creation and Development of the Ecosystem: The Role of ICT.- 4. Balkan Start-ups and the Entrepreneurs behind them.- 5. Founder and Stakeholder Interests: Combining Economic and Societal Factors in the Balkan Peninsula.- Part II. Case Studies: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems from Within: People, Stories and Lessons from the Balkans.- 6. Coherent Labs.- 7. Dronamics.- 8. Enhancv.- 9. FITE TV.- 10. Sensika Technology.- 11. Rentl.10.- 12. Telerik.- Part III. Conclusions.- 13. Concluding Thoughts and Lessons Learned from the Birth of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Unexpected Places.