COVID-19 and the Importance of Space in Entrepreneurship Research and Policy

Overview

This paper argues that the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the critical importance of space and place in entrepreneurship — dimensions that the field had increasingly marginalized in favor of digital-first, location-agnostic perspectives.

Contribution to the Research Program

This work provides contextual grounding for the lab's research on how digital and physical dimensions of entrepreneurship interact, informing the broader question of how technology reshapes (but does not eliminate) the spatial foundations of entrepreneurial action.