The sustainability of academic entrepreneurial ecosystems

Researchers began exploring the idea of sustainability in entrepreneurship in response to mounting pressure from fundamental societal challenges such as climate change, the provision of potable water for a growing global population and the development of sustainable production and consumption patterns. By adopting the academic entrepreneurial ecosystem as the theoretical framework and academic spinoffs as an illustrative case, this chapter provides a general overview of what is known about the phenomenon and outlines new venues for future research.