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What determines a successful business incubator? Introduction to an incubator guide

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  • Sophia Gerlach
  • Alexander Brem

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Business incubators have become an important pillar in the attraction and the support of innovation and entrepreneurship - in practice, and to a greater extent in theory as well. Based on earlier research, we give an overview of business incubator literature between 2001 and 2013. We review these results in a generic business incubation process model, which is elaborated in a pre-, main- and after-incubation phase. Finally, we introduce an incubator guide, which is summarising the key areas into a questionnaire. Hence, on the one hand, we foster future research on business incubation with our conceptual framework based on an extensive literature review. On the other hand, we support managers and policy makers with a practice-oriented and research-based evaluation tool for a status quo analysis as well as a solid basis for a further incubator development.

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  • Sophia Gerlach & Alexander Brem, 2015. "What determines a successful business incubator? Introduction to an incubator guide," International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(3), pages 286-307.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijeven:v:7:y:2015:i:3:p:286-307
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    1. Tobias Kruft & Alexander Kock, 2019. "Towards A Comprehensive Categorisation Of Corporate Incubators: Evidence From Cluster Analysis," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 23(08), pages 1-28, December.
    2. Sohail, Kanza & Belitski, Maksim & Castro Christiansen, Liza, 2023. "Developing business incubation process frameworks: A systematic literature review," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 162(C).
    3. Klofsten, Magnus & Lundmark, Erik & Wennberg, Karl & Bank, Nata, 2020. "Incubator specialization and size: Divergent paths towards operational scale," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    4. Brian J. Bergman & Jeffery S. McMullen, 2022. "Helping Entrepreneurs Help Themselves: A Review and Relational Research Agenda on Entrepreneurial Support Organizations," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 46(3), pages 688-728, May.
    5. Alexandru CAPATINA & Adrian MICU & Giuseppe EMPOLI, 2022. "Causal Recipes Assessing the Quality Level of Incubation Programs – A Comparative Approach Italy – Romania," Economics and Applied Informatics, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, issue 1, pages 102-110.
    6. Eric Christian Brun, 2019. "Understanding a Business Incubator as a Start-Up Factory: A Value Chain Model Perspective," International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 16(03), pages 1-28, May.

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