Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Strategy: a New Paradigm for Entrepreneurship Development

Competitiveness of entrepreneurship makes it a critical strategy in global economy. But Iran's position in the field of entrepreneurship, according to available capacities and based on ten indicators of business is not so desirable. So that Iran in terms of "business blossoming" has been ranked 93th among the 144 countries and has ranked it in the 16th place among 20 countries in the 2012-2013 Annual Report which with "Qatar" as the first country in the region (with the rank 11th among 144 countries), 82 ranks away. It seems less attention has been paid to capacities and deficiencies in this sector and also the need for transformation it in a systematic approach. However, entrepreneurship development needs to take all the capacities and empowerment of the region into account. In fact, planning for the entrepreneurship development requires attention to various issues from different aspects which makes clear the necessity of applying the ecosystem approach. Entrepreneurial ecosystem is a new approach to thinking and acting for entrepreneurship development, so that all essential systems in the entrepreneurship development and how their interaction with each other will be considered. This entrepreneurship ecosystem consists of a dozen or so elements which can consolidate into six domains market, policy, financial capital, culture; supports and human capital. Thus in this article we discuss the entrepreneurial ecosystem and the need for systemic perspective at entrepreneurship.