“…The majority of accelerators targets startups independent of their industry, while some other accelerators purposefully focus on specific sectors such as life science (Kulkov et al, 2021), supply chain management (Fink et al, 2022), or FinTech (Harris, 2021). Compared to other startup support organisations such as innovation labs (Fecher et al, 2020), incubators (Roessler & Velamuri, 2015), hackathons (Kitsios & Kamariotou, 2022), or venture capital (Bugl et al, 2022), accelerators can be delimited by the content and extent of support services (Kulkov et al, 2021), programme length (Beyhan et al, 2021) and maturity of targeted startups (Veit et al, 2021). In addition, accelerators offer specific support to startups in terms of product-market fit improvements, fast market entries and business scalability (Beyhan et al, 2021;Shankar & Clausen, 2020).…”