{"id":58195,"date":"2026-02-27T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/video-acf\/delivering-sustainability-through-ecosystem-innovation-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:53:50","slug":"delivering-sustainability-through-ecosystem-innovation","status":"publish","type":"video-acf","link":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/fnege-video\/delivering-sustainability-through-ecosystem-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivering Sustainability Through Ecosystem Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This paper examines how start-ups mobilise intermediaries to access resources\u00a0 within\u00a0 sustainable and technological innovation ecosystems (SIEs and TIEs). Drawing on a relational chain approach and quantified narrations of 90 sustainability and technological start-ups located in the same geographical area, we identify seven distinct patterns of intermediary use and compare them across the two ecosystem types. We contribute to the innovation ecosystem literature by showing that intermediary engagement follows plural trajectories, departing from the linear pipeline often assumed in ecosystem research. We further identify two contrasting logics\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of intermediation: emancipation, where ventures rely intensively on intermediaries at early stages and later reduce their dependence, and accumulation, where ventures progressively layer\u00a0 multiple\u00a0 intermediaries\u00a0 over\u00a0 time.\u00a0 Comparing\u00a0 SIEs\u00a0 and\u00a0 TIEs,\u00a0 we\u00a0 uncover\u00a0 the hidden but crucial role of interpersonal intermediaries in IEs, providing a different set of resources to sustainability start-ups, while technological ventures rely more on universities and companies. These results enrich intermediary typologies by adding inter-personal actors and reveal that the same intermediary types enable different bundles of resources depending on the ecosystem\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">context.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper examines how start-ups mobilise intermediaries to access resources  within  sustainable and technological innovation ecosystems (SIEs and TIEs). Drawing on a relational chain approach and quantified narrations of 90 sustainability and technological start-ups located in the same geographical area, we identify seven distinct patterns of intermediary use and compare them across the two ecosystem types. We contribute to the innovation ecosystem literature by showing that intermediary engagement follows plural trajectories, departing from the linear pipeline often assumed in ecosystem research. We further identify two contrasting logics<br \/>\nof intermediation: emancipation, where ventures rely intensively on intermediaries at early stages and later reduce their dependence, and accumulation, where ventures progressively layer  multiple  intermediaries  over  time.  Comparing  SIEs  and  TIEs,  we  uncover  the hidden but crucial role of interpersonal intermediaries in IEs, providing a different set of resources to sustainability start-ups, while technological ventures rely more on universities and companies. These results enrich intermediary typologies by adding inter-personal actors and reveal that the same intermediary types enable different bundles of resources depending on the ecosystem<br \/>\ncontext.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":56091,"template":"","format":[11969,11970],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[3025,3024,3146,3154,3166,3021,250,3028,3153,3145],"tags":[11907,11906,11908,932,7533],"class_list":["post-58195","video-acf","type-video-acf","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-developpement-durable-et-rse","category-enseignement-superieur-de-management","category-higher-management-education","category-innovation-management","category-international-management","category-management-de-linnovation","category-management-international","category-management-strategique","category-strategic-management","category-sustainable-development-and-csr","tag-ecosystem-governance","tag-ecosystem-innovation","tag-multilevel-framework","tag-sustainability","tag-value-creation","format-recherche","format-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video-acf\/58195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video-acf"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/video-acf"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video-acf\/58195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58195"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=58195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}