Resourcing Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is fundamentally a resourcing challenge. New ventures need knowledge, capabilities, finance, legitimacy, networks and support—but access to these resources is unevenly distributed across firms, communities and places. My research examines how entrepreneurs assemble what they need to create and grow opportunities, particularly when important resources are not available locally.

This work connects research on SME capability building, knowledge spillovers and entrepreneurial ecosystems. A central theme is business strategy and policy design for overcoming place-based constraints: how entrepreneurs can combine local strengths with relationships, universities, support organisations, digital platforms and international connections to reach resources beyond their immediate environment.

I am particularly interested in how resourcing is changing as entrepreneurial activity becomes more digitally connected and geographically unbounded. This raises practical questions for entrepreneurs about where to look for resources, and policy questions about how ecosystems and support organisations can widen access to knowledge, capabilities and opportunity.