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Is There a Path from Sin City to Tech City? The Case for Las Vegas

In: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

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  • Fiona Sussan

    (University of Phoenix)

  • Brian Sloboda

    (University of Phoenix)

  • Richard Hall

    (University of Phoenix)

Abstract

Many cities aspire to have vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems that are relevant to the digital economy—can they? To answer the question, we examine the economic history of Las Vegas, a land of gambling and entertainment, and report the recent entrepreneurial activities in the city along with the data that measures the vibrancy of the ecosystem and growth of the place. While there is no indication that the various data points converge, our analysis leads us to three insights. One, legacy industry is disconnected from the new tech hub in an entrepreneurship ecosystem when the economy has shifted from the ‘Main street’ mode to the ‘digital’ mode. Two, while there are two recent success stories of Zappos and Switch SUPERNAP in Las Vegas, entrepreneurship activities remain moderate in spite of a bottom-up effort to build Downtown as a tech hub. Three, cluster advantages and positive network externalities do not seem to happen in unrelated industry in Las Vegas.

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  • Fiona Sussan & Brian Sloboda & Richard Hall, 2018. "Is There a Path from Sin City to Tech City? The Case for Las Vegas," International Studies in Entrepreneurship, in: Allan O'Connor & Erik Stam & Fiona Sussan & David B. Audretsch (ed.), Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, pages 153-171, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:inschp:978-3-319-63531-6_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-63531-6_8
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    1. Alessandro Marra & Vittorio Carlei & Cristiano Baldassari, 2020. "Exploring networks of proximity for partner selection, firms' collaboration and knowledge exchange. The case of clean‐tech industry," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(3), pages 1034-1044, March.
    2. Andrew Godley & Norbert Morawetz & Lebene Soga, 2021. "The complementarity perspective to the entrepreneurial ecosystem taxonomy," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 56(2), pages 723-738, February.

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