Abstract for: What is the impact of an entrepreneurial ecosystem on global warming?

Although much has been written on the relationship between the entrepreneurial ecosystem and sustainability issues, several studies have called for more empirical evidence of the entrepreneurial ecosystem's environmental outcome. The literature suggests utilizing system dynamics approaches to assess this issue. The main objective of this study is to reconnoitre, through system dynamics methods, the environmental outcome of an entrepreneurial ecosystem, particularly related to the global warming problem. A Causal Loop diagram highlights the main mechanisms impacting the emission of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. These are: the direct impact produced by the firm operating in the ecosystem, the impact of green and brown startups generated in the ecosystem, the effect of the green technology development guided by the investment of the ecosystem, and the utilization and diffusion of the new green technology within the ecosystem, called the imitation effect. Different entrepreneurial ecosystems will be analyzed, combining several levels of green sensitivity, innovation, and entrepreneurship capacity for a total of 9 scenarios. The final effect on global warming will be evaluated for each of these scenarios, finding which benefits produced by the green startups will be higher than the negative impact of the ecosystem emissions and the brown startups' growth.