Entrepreneurship ecosystem models: case of Territorialization of Development in Costa Rica (TDCR)

Universities are fundamental in developing tools and instruments that facilitate the necessary information required by local and national governments to apply assertive policies that lead to territorial development. Linking the university with the state, business, productive, entrepreneurial, and social sectors allows the objective of creating communication channels and strategic forms of joint work between social actors that lead to a profound transformation of the productive, innovative, and supportive dynamics. The information generated by the evaluation models of entrepreneurial ecosystems allows decision-makers to generate business performance scenarios that determine the needs or deficiencies of the entrepreneur in the territory. However, these models lack the particularities of the territories since they are based on national analysis. This article shows the results of a project on territorialization of development, an effort by a group of academics and students to create a model of indicators that identifies the endogenous and exogenous factors that affect the development of local entrepreneurship through the analysis of external models and the application of instruments in selected territories.

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