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Alex Coad
@coad.bsky.social

An editor at Research Policy & Small Business Economics
Prof at Waseda Business School, Tokyo

Economics 54%
Business 35%

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Governments spent US$956 billion on net fossil fuel subsidies in 2023, more than triple the annual amount pledged to support climate-vulnerable countries. Fifteen countries spent more subsidizing fossil fuels than on their entire national health budgets. @thelancet.com

www.who.int/news/item/29...
Climate inaction is claiming millions of lives every year, warns new Lancet Countdown report
WHO and global partners are calling for the protection of people’s health to be recognized as the most powerful driver of climate action, as a new global report released today warns that continued ove...
www.who.int

📖 Excited to be checking the proofs for my new book:

"Data Science MBA:
Big Data, Digitalization, and Strategy; with applications in R"

Published by Springer

Coming out before the end of 2025!

If your library has a deal with Springer, it will be free to download the PDF

This is reminiscent of previous findings of a negative relationship between Self-Employment and GDP per capita:

Henrekson & Sanandaji:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

The share of female entrepreneurs first rises, then falls with national income

In higher-income countries, female entrepreneurs tend to have smaller firms in low-complexity sectors (e.g. due to discrimination), weakening the gains from female entrepreneurship

Link:
doi.org/10.1257/pand...
The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
(May 2025) - In the World Bank Enterprise Survey, the share of entrepreneurs who are women first rises and then falls with national income, while female labor force participation has the opposite U-sh...
doi.org

ICYMI fascinating evidence from Ashraf et al:

"The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development"

Maximizing the number of female entrepreneurs could be the wrong policy target!

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🎓📈 New paper: “The company I keep is not corporate enough”: exploring the specificities of University startups.
published in JTT, Open Access!

📺 This short video summarizes some of the ideas [12m32]

youtu.be/HKyU0GSL3BU

LINK to the paper:
doi.org/10.1007/s109...

#EconSky #Entrepreneurship
🎓📈New paper on University Startups: “The company I keep is not corporate enough”, Open Access in JTT
YouTube video by alexcoad1
youtu.be
‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

- Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds
Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries
www.theguardian.com

These two time series do NOT have the same degree of persistence!

#EconSky
#EntrepreneurialEcosystems

Their timeline is not clear to us...

The authors attempt to replicate our paper using three datasets, but we argue that none of the three is suitable for the task...

📢 Out now! Open Access

Coad A., @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social , (2025). "Entrepreneurial ecosystems and the persistence of regional high-growth firm shares: A reply to van Dijk, Leendertse, Stam, and van Rijnsoever (2025)." Research Policy, forthcoming. doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

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📢 Now out!

Martins-Neto & Coad (2025). Planning ahead or dragging one’s feet? Organizational structure & high-growth events. Small Business Economics.

📺 This short video summarizes the main ideas [8m25]

youtu.be/ysbQz9IgEP8

OPEN ACCESS, free to download:

doi.org/10.1007/s111...

#EconSky
📈 "Organizational structure & high-growth events"; Martins-Neto & Coad, Open Access @ SBE 2025
YouTube video by alexcoad1
youtu.be

📢📢
SBEJ 4th Online Conference for Early Career Researchers
@Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal

Friday December 5, 2025, 1pm (London, UK time).

Submit your 3-page abstract by Sunday 9th Nov.

🔗 Submit & register here: bit.ly/SBEJ-ECR

#Econsky #entrepreneurship

Reposted by Alex Coad

🚨 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 – One Week Left to Submit: #CDSM2025 🚨

📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (Virtual)
📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

We welcome:
✅ Presentation proposals
✅ Extended abstracts
✅ Full papers

📧 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼: submission@causalscience.org
🌐 Register or learn more: www.causalscience.org

📢 Book Review in TASM, with my PhD student Yi TAO:

The Management of Innovation: Managing and Creating Technology Capital
[by Alberto Galasso]

50 free copies available here:

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WKHAF...
The Management of Innovation: Managing and Creating Technology Capital
Published in Technology Analysis & Strategic Management (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com

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TSLA price-earnings ratio: 235

Paper #6

Giannozzi, A., Balzano, M., Magrini, A. and Marzi G.

The entrepreneur and the ecosystem: extending and operationalizing EE theory from an embeddedness perspective.

doi.org/10.1007/s109...

Paper #5

@coad.bsky.social , Domnick, C., Santoleri, P., @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social

Does Africa need entrepreneurial ecosystems thinking?

doi.org/10.1007/s109...

Paper #4

Naudé, W.

The African entrepreneurial ecosystem index: conceptual, methodological and empirical flaws and the way forward.

doi.org/10.1007/s109...
The African entrepreneurial ecosystem index: conceptual, methodological and empirical flaws and the way forward - The Journal of Technology Transfer
This paper identifies conceptual, methodological, and empirical flaws in the first African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index (AEEI). These flaws limit the usefulness of the AEEI. Moreover, given that th...
doi.org

Paper #3

Cowling, M., Brown, R. & Yang, H.

Traversing the multiple nested geographies of NUTs based entrepreneurial ecosystems.

doi.org/10.1007/s109...

Paper #2

Du, J., Karoglou, M., Ri, A., & Zhang, L.

Knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurial ecosystems and the geography of high growth firms redux.

doi.org/10.1007/s109...

Paper #1:

Richard T. Harrison,

“Close enough to speak; distant enough to learn?” Theory and the epistemology and ontology of the entrepreneurial ecosystem metaphor.

doi.org/10.1007/s109...

📢📢 Now out!

JTT SI on
"Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems"

w/ Clemens Domnick, Pietro Santoleri, and @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social

Link to our SI Editorial:
doi.org/10.1007/s109...

Full-text view-only version: rdcu.be/eBOHy

6 papers were in the SI

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Reposted by Alex Coad

Tesla's fourth "Master Plan" tells us nothing about the company's future. But it says plenty about the present.

It has only been two years since Master Plan III. If Tesla’s underlying business was going well, Musk wouldn’t need to ring this bell so often.

open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Tesla's Roadmap to Nowhere
I'll give him this: Elon Musk has a solid grasp of futurity-as-PR.
open.substack.com
#Tesla #CyberTruck (Incel Inside®) with the deadly dangerous fraud Full Self Drive FSD

Runs straight into guard rail

Veers off road

(Thankfully driver was paying attention)

So, this probably marks the end of $TSLA #Autonowashing #Autopilot & #FSD lawsuits?

$TSLAQ
ht @stonkking4.bsky.social

This paper takes a broad view: motivations, incentives, attitudes to promotion & authority, culture, reinventing one's identity as entrepreneur, characteristics of the knowledge base, problem-solving approaches, management practices, ... and even a bit of game theory!

📢 New(ish) in JTT [Open Access]:

"“The company I keep is not corporate enough”: exploring the specificities of University startups"

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If univ. startups have the best scientific knowledge, & big support from universities, why do they often underperform?

#EconSky

Reposted by María Savona

Reposted by Aija Leiponen

📢📢Research Policy 10th online conference for Early Career Researchers!

Fri 3rd October 2025, 2-4pm (UK time)

Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 31st August

Link for submitting:
forms.gle/GdvPaEq4seZt...

#EconSky