Why do some entrepreneurial ecosystems thrive through global connection while others stagnate behind national borders? Banu Ozkazanc-Pan argues that ecosystems are not local formations but transnational - shaped by the movement of people, ideas, and identities across geographies and cultures. Drawing on transnational migration studies, she introduces a powerful new analytic framework built around transnational social fields, historical conjunctural analysis, and mobility methods. The framework centres on three scales of original research: in-depth interviews with eighteen globally mobile founders; a richly detailed case study of the Cambridge Innovation Center across five countries; and a geopolitically charged analysis of Taiwan's Asia Innovation Hub navigating the US–China technology rivalry. Timely and theoretically bold, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems confronts the shadow side of mobility - rising anti-immigration politics and immobility regimes - and asks whose voices shape entrepreneurship theory. Essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to understand innovation in a world on the move.

‘A thoughtful and engaging take on entrepreneurial ecosystems, this book puts mobility, identity, and relational dynamics at the center of innovation. Rooted in lived experience as much as scholarship, Ozkazanc-Pan shows how ideas, people, and opportunities are shaped through encounters across borders in an interconnected world. It is both analytically sharp and deeply human in its perspective.'

Alexandra David - Westphalian University

‘Transnational Entrepreneurial Ecosystems is an important and original book. Banu Ozkazanc-Pan challenges a basic assumption in ecosystem scholarship: that ecosystems can be understood as spatially fixed, nationally contained settings. Her transnational perspective shows instead how ecosystems are made through the movement of people, ideas, identities and cultural practices. This is a significant intervention. By working across founders, support organisations and national policy actors, this book gives entrepreneurship scholars a richer account of how innovation is organised across place, scale and institutional setting. It will be especially valuable for those working on immigrant, minority and transnational entrepreneurship, but its reach is wider than that. This is a careful, ambitious and timely contribution to how we understand entrepreneurial ecosystems.'

Monder Ram - Professor of Small Business and Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME), Aston University

‘This book firmly establishes Banu Ozkazanc-Pan as one of the leading and most creative voices in the study of entrepreneurial ecosystems and entrepreneurial places more generally. Her trans-disciplinary and trans-national perspective is a welcome addition to the literature. This book highlights new perspectives in how entrepreneurial ecosystems work and why they matter. Her arguments in this book are sure to open up new avenues for research and practice.'

Ben Spigel - Associate Professor, Babson College