How university incubators may be overprotective and hindering the success of the young firm: Findings from a preliminary study

Trott, Paul; Scholten, Victor; Hartmann, D.

doi:10.1109/iemce.2008.4617984

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“…In Western countries, events are appreciated a lot as a tool for team building [10]. Young entrepreneurs are especially pleased with the networking activities and seminars for support and caching that hosts organize [12]. Such events are also planned by members themselves, physically or through online conferences [18].…”

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Priorities of Coworking Space Operation Based on Comparison of the Hosts and Users’ Perspectives

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More than 1,180,000 people use several thousand coworking spaces these days, but the running of coworking spaces is a rather fragile business model. Coworking spaces need entrepreneurial sustainability as well. Therefore, this study identifies success factors for sustainable business through analysis of users and hosts' demands and priorities about coworking spaces. To identify the priorities, we conducted a questionnaire survey with 60 hosts and 56 users by using the analytic hierarchy process method. We found that hosts thought community and communication most important, followed by space and interior, service diversity, and price plan, and users considered relationship facilitation the most important, followed by service diversity, price plan, and networking event and party. After discussions with coworking space hosts and users to understand the differences in viewpoints, we combined the results to find the highest priorities. Finally, we identified relationship facilitation, service diversity, and price plan as having the highest priorities for sustainable coworking space operation for both sides. This study has major implications for research into improving management of coworking spaces as it asks users and hosts to select and focus on elements of priority in their decision making for entrepreneurial sustainability and management innovation.

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“…This function is similar to that of an enterprise-development program of a for-profit seed capital incubator [15]. Especially, these management activities lead to up-front investment and lengthy payback periods [12]. This means that social factors play a huge role in coworking spaces and help to ensure entrepreneurial sustainability.…”

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Priorities of Coworking Space Operation Based on Comparison of the Hosts and Users’ Perspectives

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Achieving Technology Dominance for Startups: Illustrative Evidence of the Importance of Establishing Inter-Organizational Networks

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Kaa

2016

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The Sources of Competitive Advantage in University Spin-Offs: a Case Study

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Grimaldi

Scarabotti

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Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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University Spin-Offs are incorporated to exploit the knowledge and skills achieved within Universities. Often, their competitive advantage is represented by specific know-how that may be hardly imitated by competitors. In this article we present an analysis of the intellectual capital assets owned by a University Spin-Off using a framework recently introduced in literature. The framework resorts to a series of structured interviews to key figures within the organization. The interviews are synthesized through the Analytic Network Process and the results are compared using graphical and cost/ benefit analyses. The implementation of the framework creates a useful panel for the planning of investments in intellectual capital assets in order to create value. Moreover, it may emphasize possible discrepancies among interviewees about the importance of each intellectual capital asset

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How university incubators may be overprotective and hindering the success of the young firm: Findings from a preliminary study

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

Priorities of Coworking Space Operation Based on Comparison of the Hosts and Users’ Perspectives

Priorities of Coworking Space Operation Based on Comparison of the Hosts and Users’ Perspectives

Achieving Technology Dominance for Startups: Illustrative Evidence of the Importance of Establishing Inter-Organizational Networks

The Sources of Competitive Advantage in University Spin-Offs: a Case Study

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