What is it about?
This study analyses the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Caribbean and investigates the impact of three of its pillars: education, industry and government. It examines how these institutions shape the environment in which Caribbean entrepreneurs start and grow ventures, and it maps where the ecosystem supports founders and where it leaves them on their own. Published in 2020, it is the paper that opened a research programme on entrepreneurship and incubation in small island developing states.
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Why is it important?
Caribbean entrepreneurship is usually studied through frameworks built for larger economies. This paper examined the region’s ecosystem on its own terms, and the questions it raised about why ecosystem support was not producing capable ventures became the starting point for a longitudinal incubation study and a design framework for small island states, both since published and peer reviewed.
Perspectives
This was the first paper of my research programme, and it grew out of my years as Assistant Vice President of Entrepreneurship at the University of Trinidad and Tobago. Watching capable people struggle inside a system that was nominally supporting them is what turned my attention to how that support is designed.
Inshan Meahjohn
University of Trinidad and Tobago
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This page is a summary of: The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in the Caribbean, Journal of Economics and Business, September 2020, Asian Institute of Research,
DOI: 10.31014/aior.1992.03.03.259.
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