incubators
Incubator RoundUp: Specialized Incubators Increasing Their Numbers Nationwide
Silicon Valley, a region often looked to for trends in the technology field, is expected to see a rise in the number of new high-tech incubators and the expansion of existing incubators in the coming months. A recent Wall Street Journal article points to these openings as a sign of revival for technology startup companies amid a relatively slow period last year as startup investment plunged during the recession.
How Best Can Incubator Managers Help Tech Companies?
Being located within an incubator can provide tech startups help beyond low-rent space. Networking opportunities and direct counseling and technical assistance can play important roles toward the firms' success. Or do they? A recent study published in the journal Technovation finds the interactions incubator managers have with their tenant firms may not be as helpful as the metrics would suggest.
Incubator Round Up: Emphasis Grows Toward Creating Clusters within Walls
Incubators may take on magnified importance in regional innovation strategies for the coming years given the continued decline in seed and venture capital available to early-stage companies, the need for startups to reduce costs, and the increased opportunities presented for innovation through collaboration and sharing of knowledge.
So it isn't too surprising to see the wave of incubator launches increase during this financial slowdown.
Incubator RoundUp: Encouraging Entrepreneurship and Supporting Tech Commercialization
Technology-focused incubators are an important component to fostering entrepreneurial development in a region by nurturing businesses in the earliest stages of development and helping them grow into larger companies that employ high-wage workers and bring new technologies to the market. The following select announcements provide an overview of new incubators from across the nation, illustrating the vital role of entrepreneurial development in growing high-tech regional economies.
Incubator RoundUp: Growing and Sustaining High Technology Companies
Offering customized workspace such as wet laboratories and specialized research equipment is one of the many benefits provided by technology-focused incubators. Access to university research, business mentoring and administrative support services often accompany the reduced rent facilities with the goal of growing technology companies into successful, self-sustaining enterprises. Following are select announcements of recently launched incubators and partnerships from across the nation.
Handbook for New York State Incubators
There are a number of factors that influence an incubator’s ability to help companies succeed. This handbook does not attempt to prescribe a one size fits all solution. Rather, it offers a brief background of incubators to give perspective on where they are today and then offers best practices used by some of the most experienced and successful incubators in the state and nation.
Networked Business Incubator: Leveraging Entrepreneurial Agency?
Recent years have seen the emergence of a new incubator model, the "networked incubator", which is a hybrid form of the archetypal business incubator, based on territorial synergy, relational symbiosis, and economies of scope. This paper looks at why this new model has emerged and what distinguishes it from the more traditional incubator model.
Science Parks and Incubators: Observations, Synthesis and Future Research
Problems with the extant literature on science parks and incubators are examined in terms of four levels of analysis: the science parks and incubators themselves, the enterprises located upon science parks and incubators, the entrepreneurs and teams of entrepreneurs involved in these enterprises and at the systemic level.
Technology Incubators as Nodes in Knowledge Networks
The objective is to build a conceptual framework that describes how technology incubators operate as a mediator of knowledge for their tenants. In addition, based on empirical data of high-technology start-ups at TU Delft (The Netherlands), this study tests the proposition that not only geographic proximity to the university, but also that relations with other firms, particularly customers and suppliers matters.
Private vs. Public Technological Incubator Program - The lesson from Israel
This study examines the differences and similarities between two types of technological incubators – public vs. private. It addresses the question weather there is still a need for the Public Technological Incubator Program. The study points to the unique role played by venture capital funds and private investment companies in sponsoring projects in the private and the public technological incubators.