Benjamin Spigel

Journal Articles

• Wurth, B., Stam, E., Spigel, B. (2023). Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Mechanisms. Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship. Vol: 19, Issue: 3, Page: 224-339. NOW Publishers.
• Ramli, K., Spigel, B., Williams, N., Mawson, S., Jack, S. (2023). Managing through a crisis: Emotional leadership strategies of high-growth entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 pandemic. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal.
• Spigel, B., Khalid, F., Wolfe, D. (2022). Alacrity: A new model for venture acceleration. International Entrepreneurship & Management Journal.
• Spigel, B. (2022). Examining the cohesiveness and nestedness entrepreneurial ecosystems: Evidence from British fintechs. Small Business Economics.
• Spigel, B., Khalid, F. (2022). Accelerators, acceleration, and policy mobility in entrepreneurial ecosystems. Review of Entrepreneurship / Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat.
• Spigel, B., Vinodrai, T. (2021). Meeting its Waterloo? Recycling in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems after Anchor Firm Collapse. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal.
• Bernd, W., Stam, E., Spigel, B. (2021). Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem research program. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
• Spigel, B., Kitagawa, F., Mason, C. (2020). A manifesto for researching entrepreneurial ecosystems. Local Economy.
• Spigel, B., Bathelt, H. (2018). Questioning cultural narratives of economic development—an investigation of Kitchener-Waterloo. Canadian Geographer.
• Spigel, B., Harrison, R. (2018). Towards a process theory of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
• Spigel, B. (2017). Bourdieu, culture, and the economic geography of practice: entrepreneurial mentorship in Ottawa and Waterloo, Canada. Journal of Economic Geography.
• Spigel, B. (2017). The relational organisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
• Spigel, B. (2016). Developing and governing entrepreneurial ecosystems: The structure of entrepreneurial support programs in Edinburgh, Scotland. International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development.
• Muellerleile, C., Stauss, K., Spigel, B., Narrins, T. (2014). Economic geography and the financial crisis: Full speed ahead or missing the boat. The Professional Geographer.
• Spigel, B. (2013). Bourdieuian approaches to the geography of entrepreneurial cultures. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal.
• Bathelt, H., Munro, A., Spigel, B. (2013). Challenges of transformation: Innovation, re-bundling and traditional manufacturing in Canada’s Technology Triangle. Regional Studies.
• Spigel, B. (2012). The sources of regional variation in Canadian self-employment. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
• Bathelt, H., Spigel, B. (2012). The spatial economy of North American trade fairs. The Canadian Geographer.
• Bathelt, H., Spigel, B. (2011). University spin-offs and regional policy in comparative perspective: The cases of Columbus (Ohio) and Toronto and Waterloo (Ontario).. International Journal for Knowledge-Based Development.
• Jones, B., , E., Spigel, B. (2010). Blog links as pipelines to buzz elsewhere: The case of New York theatre blogs. Environment and Planning B .

Books

• Spigel, B. (2020). Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Theory, Practice, and Futures. Edward Elgar.

Book Chapters

• Hong, M., Spigel, B. (2024). The Kaleidoscope of Configurations: Actor/Role Configurations within Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Cities and Regions. Oxford University Press. link
• Spigel, B. (2020). Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: What They're Made of and How They Work: Entrepreneurship & Innovation Exchange. link
• Stam, E., Spigel, B. (2018). Entrepreneurial ecosystems: SAGE Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
• Spigel, B. (2018). Envisioning a New Research Agenda for Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches: Firm Emergence and Growth Volume 20: Reflections and Extensions on Key Papers of the First Twenty-Five Years of Advances.
• Spigel, B., Malecki, E. (2017). Entrepreneurship and innovation: The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation.
• Spigel, B. (2016). Networking practices and networking cultures: Geographies of Entrepreneurship.
• Brunelle, C., Spigel, B. (2016). Path dependency, entrepreneurship, and economic resilience in resource-driven economies. Lessons from the Newfoundland offshore oil industry: Creating Resilient Economies: Entrepreneurship, Growth and Development in Uncertain Times.
• Spigel, B. (2016). The Cultural embeddedness of regional innovation: A Bourdieuian perspective: Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation.
• Spigel, B. (2011). A series of unfortunate events: The growth, decline and rebirth of Ottawa’s entrepreneurial institutions: Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Development, Volume 22.

Other

• Spigel, B. (2017). Mentoring vital to ensure Edinburgh carries on developing entrepreneurs: The Times . link