Circular Learning Process For Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem

Abstract

Introduction:

This research introduced a discussion with emergent modeling for systemic learning process using a case study based on the World Music School (WMS), an NGO (non-governmental organization) that has taught music and organized events around dance and music as an inclusive learning process and connectivity enhancer. This research is an extension to previously published research relating to the WMS. Previous study has made discussions around community resilience as key a contribution towards the social ecological system, extrapolating how community resilience was nurtured by systemic learning process during inter-organizational collaborations.

Problem:

This research contributed a synthesized framework that linked community resilience with circular ecosystem, emphasizing the analogy between the emerging characteristics of community resilience and the unique elements of a circular ecosystem. It tackled the research question of how circularity was enabled within an Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem, fostering social sustainability.

Methodology:

The methodological approach of this research involves academic literature, fieldwork observation and in-depth discussion with multiple agents and stakeholders including community and research groups.

Results:

This research identified fundamental insights that have defined the resilience of a community to a paradigm shift: the transition from linear to circular production on social aspects of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. The framework being presented, has defined the different shock levels and mechanisms along the micro, meso and macro level of longitudinal impact regarding the three categories of community resilience, respectively initiatives, emerging qualities and longitudinal impact. Through the multi-level perspective framework, the community resilience insights can be extrapolated to the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem implementation. It contributed to minimizing the theoretical and empirical research gap regarding the social aspect of circular ecosystem, it exposed the unique nexus of the structured entrepreneurial circular ecosystem and community resilience. The observation of this case study suggested that social sustainability can be achieved through the circularity of an Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem.