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Business incubators and new venture creation: an assessment of incubating models
Rosa Grimaldi,Alessandro Grandi +1 more
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In this paper, the authors identify a list of incubator "characterizing" variables to highlight the main differences between the four types of incubators and to describe the incubating models.About:
This article is published in Technovation.The article was published on 2005-02-01. It has received 702 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Incubator.read more
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Incubator best practice: A framework
Anna Bergek,Charlotte Norrman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a framework for identifying best practice incubator models and for more rigorous evaluations of incubator performance based on three distinguishing model components: selection, business support and mediation.
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The Evolution of Business Incubators: Comparing demand and supply of business incubation services across different incubator generations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present data collected within seven business incubators and their tenants regarding service provision and selection criteria, and suggest that older generation BIs should update their service portfolio while simultaneously imposing stricter selection criteria and introducing exit policies.
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From market fixing to market-creating: a new framework for innovation policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider four key issues that arise from a market-creating framework for policy: decision-making on the direction of change; the nature of (public and private) organizations that can welcome the underlying uncertainty and discovery process; evaluation of mission-oriented and market-creation policies; and the ways in which both risks and rewards can be shared so that smart growth can also result in inclusive growth.
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Understanding a new generation incubation model: The accelerator
Charlotte Pauwels,Bart Clarysse,Bart Clarysse,Mike Wright,Mike Wright,Jonas Van Hove,Jonas Van Hove +6 more
TL;DR: This inductive study investigates 13 accelerators across Europe and adopts a design lens to identify the accelerator model’s key design parameters and distinguishes between three different types of accelerators, taking the primary design theme of the accelerator into account.
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Critical Role and Screening Practices of European Business Incubators
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe screening practices by European business incubators and compare these results with the American incubators in the eighties, finding that the tenant survival rate is positively related to a more balanced screening profile.
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Academic research and industrial innovation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the extent to which technological innovations in various industries have been based on recent academic research, and the time lags between the investment in academic research projects and the industrial utilization of their findings.
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Criteria distinguishing successful from unsuccessful ventures in the venture screening process
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify two major criteria that are predictors of venture success: the extent to which the venture is initially insulated from competition and the degree to which there is demonstrated market acceptance of the product.
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Assessing value-added contributions of university technology business incubators to tenant firms
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the value-added contributions of university technology business incubators (UTBIs) to their new technology-based tenant firms, focusing on their typical incubator services along with university-related inputs, and conclude that several UTBI services, specifically some of the university related inputs such as university image, laboratories and equipment, and student employees add major values to the client firms.
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Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
TL;DR: It is argued that one type of incubators, called a networked incubator, represents a fundamentally new and enduring organizational model uniquely suited to growing businesses in the Internet economy.