Comparison of Different Ecosystem Analogies: The Main Economic Determinants and Levels of Impact

摘要

The term “ecosystem” is mostly noticed in the science of biology; nonetheless it frequently appears in economy related literature, as well. The following terms can be found throughout particular writings: business ecosystem, entrepreneurship ecosystem, an innovation ecosystem, digital business ecosystem and industrial ecosystem. The aim of this research is to compare these analogies. Every analogy has different actors, its environment and various interactions between them; furthermore every ecosystem is a community of subjects that interact as a complete system. Biological ecosystem analogies have a distinctive effect on their entities and the environment, moreover they have different key determinant affecting the performance of the whole system.