curriculum vitae

Work History

  • 2023: Visiting Professor, Babson College Entrepreneurship Division

  • 2018 — 2023: Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University of Edinburgh Business School, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Group

  • 2013 — 2018: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) & Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Edinburgh Business School, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Group

    Education History

  • 2008 — 2013: Ph.D - University of Toronto

    • Dissertation Title: The emergence of regional cultures and practices: A comparative study of Canadian software entrepreneurship

    • Dissertation Committee: Harald Bathelt (advisor), Meric Gertler, Pierre Desrochers, Olav Sorenson

  • 2006 — 2008: Masters of Arts - The Ohio State University

  • 2002 — 2006: Honours Bachelors of Arts - University of Toronto

Peer-Reviewed Publications

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

  2. B. Wurth, E. Stam, and B. Spigel (2023). Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Mechanisms. Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship. Vol 19.

  3. K. Ramli, B. Spigel, N. Williams, S. Mawson, S. Jack. (2023). Managing through a crisis: Emotional leadership strategies of high-growth entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 pandemic. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.

  4. P. Muñoz, J. Kimmitt, and B. Spigel (2023). Trans-Contextual Work: Doing Entrepreneurial Contexts in the Periphery. Small Business Economics.

  5. F. Khalid and B. Spigel (2023). Accelerators, acceleration, and policy mobility in entrepreneurial ecosystems. Review of Entrepreneurship / Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat 2(2):47-74.

  6. B. Spigel (2022). Examining the cohesiveness and nestedness entrepreneurial ecosystems: Evidence from British fintechs. Small Business Economics.

  7. B. Spigel, F. Khalid and D. Wolfe. Alacrity: a new model for venture acceleration. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 19(4):237-259.

  8. B. Wurth, E. Stam, and B. Spigel. (2021) Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem research program. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 46(3):729-778

  9. B. Spigel and T. Vinodrai. (2021). Meeting its Waterloo? Recycling in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems after Anchor Firm Collapse. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 33(7-8): 599-620

    Received 2019 Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Award for Best Empirical Paper

  10. B. Spigel, F. Kitagawa, C. Mason. (2020). A manifesto for researching entrepreneurial ecosystems. Local Economy 35(2): 482-495.

  11. B. Spigel and H. Bathelt (2018). Questioning cultural narratives of economic development—an investigation of Kitchener-Waterloo. The Canadian Geographer

  12. B. Spigel and R. Harrison (2018). Towards a process theory of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 12(1): 151-168.

    Most Read Article in Journal, 2018-2019; Web of Science Highly Cited Article from September 2020

  13. B. Spigel. (2017) Bourdieu, culture, and the economic geography of practice: entrepreneurial mentorship in Ottawa and Waterloo, Canada. Journal of Economic Geography 17(2): 287-310.

  14. B. Spigel. (2017) The relational organisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 41(1): 49-72.

    Awarded 2023 Helena Yli-Renko Research Impact Award for highest cited entrepreneurship paper 5 years post-publication

    Most Read and Cited Article in Journal, 2018-2019; Web of Science Highly Cited Article from September 2020

  15. B. Spigel. (2016) Developing and governing entrepreneurial ecosystems: The structure of entrepreneurial support programs in Edinburgh, Scotland. International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development 7(2):141-160.

  16. C. Muellerleile, K. Strauss, B. Spigel and T. Narins. (2014). Economic geography and the financial crisis: Full speed ahead or missing the boat? The Professional Geographer 66(1):11-17.

  17. B. Spigel. (2013) Bourdieuian approaches to the geography of entrepreneurial cultures. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 25(9-10); 804-818.

  18. H. Bathelt, A. Munro and B. Spigel (2013). Challenges of transformation: Innovation, re-bundling and traditional manufacturing in Canada’s Technology Triangle. Regional Studies 47(7): 1111-1130.

  19. H. Bathelt and B. Spigel (2012). The spatial economy of North American trade fairs. The Canadian Geographer 56(1): 18-38.

  20. B. Spigel. (2012) The sources of regional variation in Canadian self-employment. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 15(3):340-361

  21. H. Bathelt and B. Spigel (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 2(2):202-219.

  22. B. Jones, B. Spigel, and E. J. Malecki. (2010) Blog links as pipelines to buzz elsewhere: The case of New York theatre blogs. Environment and Planning B 37(1):99-111

Funding

  • 2020-2021 — ESRC / UKRI Grant “Entrepreneurial resiliency, innovation, and change during the COVID-19 Crisis.” £236,840 (Principal Investigator)

  • 2018 - 2021— ESRC-AHRC UK-Japan SSH Connections Grant “Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems in the UK and Japan - Place-Based Policy Scenarios and Options” £41,902 (Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Fumi Kitagawa)

  • 2018 - 2020 — Frank H. Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research Grant “Joining Fin with Tech: The Relationships Between Regional and Sectoral Entrepreneurial Ecosystems” $10,000 (Principal Investigator)

  • 2017 — Economic and Social Research Council Impact Grant “Mapping Edinburgh’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem” £17,527 (Principal Investigator)

  • 2015-2019 — Social Science and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant “Creating Digital Opportunity: Canada’s ICT Sector in Global Perspective — Waterloo Research Project” (Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Tara Vinodrai) $80,000 (CND)

  • 2015-2018 — Social Science and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant “Sources of Structural Changes: Understanding Economic Diversification in Canadian Regions” (Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Cedric Brunelle) $74,956 (CND)

  • 2015-2016 — University of Edinburgh Business School Early Career Venture Fund for project “Institutional and Cultural Governance of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems” £7,278

  • 2014-2015 — British Academy / Leverhulme Small Research Grant for project “Entrepreneurial Innovation in Resource-Driven Economies: Pathways to Diversification or Economic Lock-in?” £8,250

Awards

  • Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California — Helena Yli-Renko Research Impact Award (2023, $5,000)

  • Richard M Schulze Family Foundation — Schulze Publication Award (2020, $2,000)

  • Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Award — Best Empirical Paper “Meeting its Waterloo? Recycling in entrepreneurial ecosystems after anchor firm collapse” (2019, $1,500)

  • University of Edinburgh Business School Best Teaching Innovation Award (2015/2016)

  • University of Edinburgh Business School Best Feedback Award (2015/2016)

  • University of Edinburgh Business School Inspirational Teaching Award (2015/2016)

  • Nominee — Edinburgh University Student Association Teaching Award (2015/2016)