Women in Leadership Panel include: April Clobes, President & CEO, Michigan State University Federal Credit Union, Kelly Preston, Owner & President, Capital Steel & Wire, and Denise Maybank, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, City University of New York. Our moderator will be Elaine Hardy, Director for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, City of East Lansing & 2020 ATHENA Award recipient.

For the last fifty years or so, globalization has been the dominant operating paradigm for business enterprises of all sizes. Yet, the business landscape is changing quickly. Where once eschewed by capitalistic economies, national industrial policies are becoming more common. Join us as we explore how multinational firms are managing in this evolving global model.

Key Takeaways:

Why are national industrial policies becoming more common and what are the effects on businesses from national industrial policies?

How are firms balancing the need for global scale with the realities of an evolving world order?

What factors are companies using to choose where to operate (e.g., sales, manufacturing and R&D locations)?

What are the new business models and structures that might emerge?

While challenges abound, are there positive implications for industry?

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Our study introduces the complementarity perspective to the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) research as a process to compare the two entrepreneurial ecosystems across different countries and institutions. We apply the mixed method techniques to understand what works and what does not in the ecosystem and how regional and industry level conditions may facilitate more sustainable, resilient entrepreneurial ecosystems, where entrepreneurs grow and internationalize.

Our empirical part focuses on two entrepreneurial ecosystem (Istanbul in Turkey and Reading in the UK) models characterized by different EE taxonomy pillars and embedded in different local and institutional contexts. As a result of the study, two findings emerge. First, we find three distinct complementarities in both EEs: access to resources, effective use of resources, entrepreneurial orientation, and ecosystem awareness.

Second, industry and regional conditions facilitate specific entrepreneurship activity, affects scaling and internationalization. The mechanism which enables firm scaling and internationalization in the ecosystem is much dependent on the presence and hiring by MNEs in a region.

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