Business incubators in China

Chen, Jin; Jinrong, Yin; Miao, Zhu

doi:10.1504/ijeim.2003.002219

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“…Many studies have been carried out on business incubators in general and technology incubators in particular. Some of them are: Aerts et al [35], Allen and Bazan [36], Campbell et al [37], Colombo and Delnastro [38], Jin et al [39], Lee [40], Matusiak [41], Mian [42], Phillips [43], Sofouli and Vonortas [44], Tornatzky et al [45] and Wiggins and Gibson [46] among many others. They characterize business incubation, with different objectives, also representing the current state of incubators, both over time and between countries, to give a sounder understanding of the globalization of the concept.…”

Section: Business Incubatorsmentioning

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Do Business Incubators Function as a Transfer Technology Mechanism from University to Industry? Evidence from Portugal

Marques¹,

Caraça²,

Diz³

2010

TOBJ

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This paper concerns an empirical study on the university-industry cooperation, with the motivation that incubators would function as a transfer technology mechanism. It describes the links relating to R&D, human resources and provision of services for a sample of 79 firms based in the 11 incubators and universities. The results confirm some factors that affect the strength of such links-size of firms, R&D activities and economic sector, and revealed two other factors-incubators' statutory situation and firm origin. It also emerges that while the university stake in the incubators' capital is quite small, and the involvement of firms in R&D activities is rare, there is a significant formal involvement with the society following a global trend towards "entrepreneurial university". This suggests that the university contribution to the development of firms' activities is more related to providing information that complements their technological endeavours, and less to creating innovations, ready for market.

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Section: Business Incubatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Business Incubators Function as a Transfer Technology Mechanism from University to Industry? Evidence from Portugal

Marques¹,

Caraça²,

Diz³

2010

TOBJ

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“…Entrepreneurship or entrepreneurs are the foundation for the economic growth of any nation, especially SMEs (Chen, Yin, and Zhu 2003). Past research argued that entrepreneurs who get help from incubation centers prepare to transform a company into a successful new venture (Ratinho & Henriques, 2010;Lewis, 2010).…”

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Role of Incubation Centers in Promoting Sustainable Development in Nigeria

Mavuri

Chavali

Vadakkiveetil

2023

Acad. J. Interdiscip. Stud.

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Incubation centers play a vital role in the sustainable development of an economy. To promote the entrepreneurial ecosystem and innovation in Nigeria, the government has taken initiatives by establishing incubation centers. The present study explores the role played by incubation centers' in Nigeria and the problems and challenges perceived by incubation centers and incubatees. The purpose of the present study is also to explore suitable strategies which can bring in sustainable development and helps to ensure entrepreneurs a promising future in the state of Kano. Only a few existing studies have worked on the perspective of incubation centers and incubatees. The present study prepares a questionnaire using a Likert scale to collect the responses using a convenience sampling technique. Henry Garrett Ranking Technique is used to find the most alarming challenges and the incubates' expectations from incubation centers' services. The rank-order outcomes of the study have clearly shown that developing a business plan, supporting product design and prototype, access to finances, and providing workforce and skill-based training to incubatees are the priority support services. An incubation center expects to provide these services to its incubatees. Incubatees are not satisfied with incubation centers’ services like conducting workshops/trade fairs, product development activities/laboratory arrangements, taking periodic feedback about incubator services, and the skills of trained staff of the incubation centers. The incubatees perceived that the incubation center in Kano is highly dependent on the quality of the manager for the services provided to incubates. For the effective outcome of incubation centers, training and mentoring should be assessed periodically by an external evaluator using an outcome-based approach. All such efforts will result in the real growth of incubation centers and their role in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship. Received: 4 November 2022 / Accepted: 26 December 2022 / Published: 5 January 2023

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