Dutta's Research Explores How Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Learn and Grow


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Professor Dev Dutta recently published a new theoretical paper, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Memory and Orchestration, in "Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal."

In less than a week, Dutta’s LinkedIn post announcing the publication garnered more than 8,000 views, over 150 likes, and 10 reposts, reflecting the strong interest in his work on how entrepreneurial ecosystems evolve and scale over time.

The paper, co-authored with Indu Khurana, expands on the concept of an ecosystem-wide Transactive Memory System (TMS)—a collective knowledge network that allows entrepreneurial ecosystems to retain wisdom, coordinate activities, and adapt to changing environments. Dutta and Khurana propose a comprehensive theoretical framework explaining how such systems emerge and drive orchestration across diverse ecosystem actors.

“This conceptual paper was three years in the making,” Dutta wrote in his LinkedIn post. “We hope it will inspire follow-up empirical research on how entrepreneurial ecosystems scale up, evolve, and are orchestrated over time.”

View the full paper here.