Policy for sustainable entrepreneurship: A crowdsourced framework

Sustainable entrepreneurship can contribute to sustainable development by seeking synergies between social, environmental and economic outcomes, turning market failures into commercial opportunities. However, institutional conditions often act obstruct entrepreneurs. While policy is instrumental in shaping for entrepreneurship, how best support ventures specifically under-researched. This study uses a novel crowdsourcing approach with multiple actors the ecosystem explore create conducive entrepreneurship. An emergent multi-level framework outlines six mechanisms which this may be achieved: resource prioritisation, competency building, creation, networked sharing, collaborative replication, impact valuation. These enable three interconnected objectives: enterprise system transformation, reorientation. The thereby makes four main contributions literature on policy. First, it reveals importance of ‘meso level’ that supports ecosystem, complementing micro-level supply-side macro-level demand-side policies. Second, proposes focus not just enterprises they are grown, but sustainability-oriented innovations replicated. Third, identifies need ‘impact re-orientation’ policies track optimise entrepreneurs' individual collective triple-bottom-line impacts. Fourth, exemplifies promising method co-creating