Editorial: building entrepreneurial ecosystems: exploring ambidexterity in technology and engineering management

The papers in this special section focus on the building of entrepreneurial ecosystems and its impact on engineering management. An intense competition and a dynamic environment are posing new opportunities and challenges for technology and engineering management within organizations striving to be innovative. In this respect, organizations that aim to apply technological competencies to business management processes to reach the strategic objectives of the enterprises, cannot rely only on internal resources. A growing interest of managers and policymakers is the promotion of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE) as an interconnected system of forces that generate and sustain regional entrepreneurship.