A Case Study on Cross-Boundary Value Co-Creation of Specialized and Sophisticated SMEs’ Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Led by Professional Incubators

RAN Jiasen, ZHANG Yanping, ZHOU Zhiming

Chinese Journal of Management ›› 2026, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (7) : 1189.

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Chinese Journal of Management ›› 2026, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (7) : 1189.

A Case Study on Cross-Boundary Value Co-Creation of Specialized and Sophisticated SMEs’ Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Led by Professional Incubators

  • RAN Jiasen,ZHANG Yanping,ZHOU Zhiming
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This paper adopts an embedded case study design, taking Kingfa Technology Incubator as the research object. From the boundary-spanning perspective, it analyzes the process through which specialized incubator lead two types of entrepreneurial ecosystems including “specialized” and “sophisticated” to achieve cross-boundary value co-creation, and accordingly constructs an integrated process model. The specific research conclusions are as follows:①for the specialized SMEs’ entrepreneurial ecosystem, professional incubators identify market segmentation barriers, implement horizontal spanning of market domain boundaries, and realize scale-expansion-oriented cross-boundary value co-creation;②for the sophisticated SMEs’ entrepreneurial ecosystem, professional incubators identify technological discontinuity barriers, implement vertical spanning of technology domain boundaries, and achieve technology-breakthrough-oriented cross-boundary value co-creation;③for the SMEs’ entrepreneurial ecosystem with the collaborative evolution of specialized and sophisticated attributes, professional incubators identify ecosystem misalignment barriers, implement cross-spanning of ecological domain boundaries, and accomplish ecological integration-oriented cross-boundary value co-creation.

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professional incubators / specialized and sophisticated SMEs / entrepreneurial ecosystem / cross-boundary value co-creation

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RAN Jiasen, ZHANG Yanping, ZHOU Zhiming. A Case Study on Cross-Boundary Value Co-Creation of Specialized and Sophisticated SMEs’ Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Led by Professional Incubators[J]. Chinese Journal of Management. 2026, 23(7): 1189
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