Guest editorial: Unveiling the roles of intellectual capital in entrepreneurial ecosystems: evidence from moderate innovative countries

Following the surge of interest for business scholars in the approach of ecosystem initially proposed by Moore (1993), the novel concept of an entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) coined by Prahalad (2005), as a combination of manifold stakeholders from private and public sectors to generate economic wealth and societal prosperity in a symbiotic manner, has also gained prominence in recent years. Despite some similarities and overlap between the EE and several homologous terms, including the business ecosystem (Moore, 1993), the innovation ecosystem (Adner, 2006) and the knowledge ecosystem (Van der Borgh et al., 2012), the EE has been deemed as a distinctive type of ecosystem in various fields of management.