ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights high- and low-entrepreneurship in the multiple case study from Fortunato's dissertation chronicling the way that entrepreneurs and institutional actors interact—or fail to interact—to create a community that supports habits and norms of entrepreneurial venturing. It discusses the role of culture, the role of local and state leaders, the role of history, the roles of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs, and the role of local and extra-local actors. The chapter focuses on how these topics have been used to remove barriers in each community. It examines the case study data in the context of the four major approaches to entrepreneurship development: facilitating conditions, national and regional policy, entrepreneurial communities, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Politicians were frequently identified by entrepreneurs to be barriers to their success, and to the construction of a healthy entrepreneurial community. New entrepreneurial ventures were therefore easy for the population to embrace, as few were wedded to one singular economic model.
