This paper offers an integrative review of currently scattered research on how agent-independent changes to the technological, regulatory, demographic, socio-cultural and natural environments enable new venture creation. We believe it important and timely to highlight this literature’s approach to incorporating the role of external factors in order to balance out and leverage the otherwise dominant agent-focus in entrepreneurship research. We generate order by integrating dispersed literatures under a unified terminology and develop an improved platform for future research that can advance research on the how environmental changes are used in venture-level strategic action throughout the venture creation process."