Alex Coad
@coad.bsky.social
An editor at Research Policy & Small Business Economics
Prof at Waseda Business School, Tokyo
Prof at Waseda Business School, Tokyo
📖 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
"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
October 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
📖 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
"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...
Henrekson & Sanandaji:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
October 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
This is reminiscent of previous findings of a negative relationship between Self-Employment and GDP per capita:
Henrekson & Sanandaji:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Henrekson & Sanandaji:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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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"The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development"
Maximizing the number of female entrepreneurs could be the wrong policy target!
🧵...
October 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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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"The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development"
Maximizing the number of female entrepreneurs could be the wrong policy target!
🧵...
These two time series do NOT have the same degree of persistence!
#EconSky
#EntrepreneurialEcosystems
#EconSky
#EntrepreneurialEcosystems
September 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
These two time series do NOT have the same degree of persistence!
#EconSky
#EntrepreneurialEcosystems
#EconSky
#EntrepreneurialEcosystems
Their timeline is not clear to us...
September 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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...
September 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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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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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September 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
📢 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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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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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
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
September 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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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
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
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...
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...
September 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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...
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...
@coad.bsky.social , Domnick, C., Santoleri, P., @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social
Does Africa need entrepreneurial ecosystems thinking?
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
September 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Paper #5
@coad.bsky.social , Domnick, C., Santoleri, P., @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social
Does Africa need entrepreneurial ecosystems thinking?
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
@coad.bsky.social , Domnick, C., Santoleri, P., @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social
Does Africa need entrepreneurial ecosystems thinking?
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
Paper #3
Cowling, M., Brown, R. & Yang, H.
Traversing the multiple nested geographies of NUTs based entrepreneurial ecosystems.
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
Cowling, M., Brown, R. & Yang, H.
Traversing the multiple nested geographies of NUTs based entrepreneurial ecosystems.
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
September 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Paper #3
Cowling, M., Brown, R. & Yang, H.
Traversing the multiple nested geographies of NUTs based entrepreneurial ecosystems.
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
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...
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...
September 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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...
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...
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...
September 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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...
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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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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September 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
📢📢 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
🧵
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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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!
August 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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
"“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
August 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
📢 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
"“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
📢📢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
Fri 3rd October 2025, 2-4pm (UK time)
Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 31st August
Link for submitting:
forms.gle/GdvPaEq4seZt...
#EconSky
August 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
📢📢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
Fri 3rd October 2025, 2-4pm (UK time)
Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 31st August
Link for submitting:
forms.gle/GdvPaEq4seZt...
#EconSky
ICYMI: an excellent critical review of QCA research.
Rönkkö, Maula, & @karlwennberg.bsky.social in ETP:
DOI: 10.1177/10422587251315654
QCA is a pre-processing step for QUALITATIVE research, not for quantitative research.
(A clue is in the name: QUALitative Comparative Analysis)
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Rönkkö, Maula, & @karlwennberg.bsky.social in ETP:
DOI: 10.1177/10422587251315654
QCA is a pre-processing step for QUALITATIVE research, not for quantitative research.
(A clue is in the name: QUALitative Comparative Analysis)
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April 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
ICYMI: an excellent critical review of QCA research.
Rönkkö, Maula, & @karlwennberg.bsky.social in ETP:
DOI: 10.1177/10422587251315654
QCA is a pre-processing step for QUALITATIVE research, not for quantitative research.
(A clue is in the name: QUALitative Comparative Analysis)
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Rönkkö, Maula, & @karlwennberg.bsky.social in ETP:
DOI: 10.1177/10422587251315654
QCA is a pre-processing step for QUALITATIVE research, not for quantitative research.
(A clue is in the name: QUALitative Comparative Analysis)
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Startups are different: let's support the good types, & tax the low-quality types:
"the largest productivity gains can be reaped by reducing taxes for capital-intensive, large, & cash-intensive startup types while financing this measure by an increase in taxes for basic & high-leverage types."
"the largest productivity gains can be reaped by reducing taxes for capital-intensive, large, & cash-intensive startup types while financing this measure by an increase in taxes for basic & high-leverage types."
February 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Startups are different: let's support the good types, & tax the low-quality types:
"the largest productivity gains can be reaped by reducing taxes for capital-intensive, large, & cash-intensive startup types while financing this measure by an increase in taxes for basic & high-leverage types."
"the largest productivity gains can be reaped by reducing taxes for capital-intensive, large, & cash-intensive startup types while financing this measure by an increase in taxes for basic & high-leverage types."
📢 Important paper: 👇
Startup Types & Macroeconomic Performance in Europe
De Haas, Sterk, Van Horen
K-means clustering on data from 10 EU countries finds 5 types of firms:
Basic (49% of all startups);
Large (4%);
Capital intensive (7%);
Cash-intensive (26%);
High-leverage (14%)
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Startup Types & Macroeconomic Performance in Europe
De Haas, Sterk, Van Horen
K-means clustering on data from 10 EU countries finds 5 types of firms:
Basic (49% of all startups);
Large (4%);
Capital intensive (7%);
Cash-intensive (26%);
High-leverage (14%)
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February 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
📢 Important paper: 👇
Startup Types & Macroeconomic Performance in Europe
De Haas, Sterk, Van Horen
K-means clustering on data from 10 EU countries finds 5 types of firms:
Basic (49% of all startups);
Large (4%);
Capital intensive (7%);
Cash-intensive (26%);
High-leverage (14%)
🧵
Startup Types & Macroeconomic Performance in Europe
De Haas, Sterk, Van Horen
K-means clustering on data from 10 EU countries finds 5 types of firms:
Basic (49% of all startups);
Large (4%);
Capital intensive (7%);
Cash-intensive (26%);
High-leverage (14%)
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📢📢Research Policy 9th online conference for Early Career Researchers!
Fri 25th April 2025, 2-4pm (UK time)
Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 23rd March
Link:
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
@mariasavona.bsky.social
@maryannfeldman.bsky.social
@paulnightingale.bsky.social
#EconSky
Fri 25th April 2025, 2-4pm (UK time)
Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 23rd March
Link:
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
@mariasavona.bsky.social
@maryannfeldman.bsky.social
@paulnightingale.bsky.social
#EconSky
February 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM
📢📢Research Policy 9th online conference for Early Career Researchers!
Fri 25th April 2025, 2-4pm (UK time)
Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 23rd March
Link:
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
@mariasavona.bsky.social
@maryannfeldman.bsky.social
@paulnightingale.bsky.social
#EconSky
Fri 25th April 2025, 2-4pm (UK time)
Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 23rd March
Link:
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
@mariasavona.bsky.social
@maryannfeldman.bsky.social
@paulnightingale.bsky.social
#EconSky
"Elon's Spies": How Elon Musk uses private detectives & spies to destroy whistle-blowers, threaten politicians, etc. Creepy, weird, nasty, and dangerous.
Link here, listen wherever you get your podcasts: lnk.to/ElonsSpies
Meanwhile, it seems like Tesla employees are tracking me on LinkedIn!
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 AM
"Elon's Spies": How Elon Musk uses private detectives & spies to destroy whistle-blowers, threaten politicians, etc. Creepy, weird, nasty, and dangerous.
Link here, listen wherever you get your podcasts: lnk.to/ElonsSpies
Meanwhile, it seems like Tesla employees are tracking me on LinkedIn!
📢📢 3rd SBEJ Conference for Early Career Researchers (online)
Weds 4th Dec 2024, 1pm (London time), 2 hours duration
📆 submit your 3-page extended abstract by: Sun 10 Nov 2024❗❗
👉Presenters & Non-Presenters: sign up here: bit.ly/SBEJ-ECR
Link:
link.springer.com/journal/1118...
#Econsky 📉📈
Weds 4th Dec 2024, 1pm (London time), 2 hours duration
📆 submit your 3-page extended abstract by: Sun 10 Nov 2024❗❗
👉Presenters & Non-Presenters: sign up here: bit.ly/SBEJ-ECR
Link:
link.springer.com/journal/1118...
#Econsky 📉📈
October 8, 2024 at 5:46 AM
📢📢 3rd SBEJ Conference for Early Career Researchers (online)
Weds 4th Dec 2024, 1pm (London time), 2 hours duration
📆 submit your 3-page extended abstract by: Sun 10 Nov 2024❗❗
👉Presenters & Non-Presenters: sign up here: bit.ly/SBEJ-ECR
Link:
link.springer.com/journal/1118...
#Econsky 📉📈
Weds 4th Dec 2024, 1pm (London time), 2 hours duration
📆 submit your 3-page extended abstract by: Sun 10 Nov 2024❗❗
👉Presenters & Non-Presenters: sign up here: bit.ly/SBEJ-ECR
Link:
link.springer.com/journal/1118...
#Econsky 📉📈
📢 New paper:
Teruel M., Bauer P., Coad A., Domnick C., Harasztosi P., Rückert D., Weiss C., (2024). Digitalisation & high-growth enterprises in Europe.
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
50 free copies here:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UFH8J...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 31, 2024 at 1:13 PM
📢 New paper:
Teruel M., Bauer P., Coad A., Domnick C., Harasztosi P., Rückert D., Weiss C., (2024). Digitalisation & high-growth enterprises in Europe.
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
50 free copies here:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UFH8J...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
