Technology-based business incubators

Assessing government-supported technology-based business incubators: evidence from China

This study examines the effectiveness of government-supported incubator programmes in China. Findings highlight the importance of private-sector involvement in the incubators’ governing body. Previous literature acknowledges the importance of government intervention in the entrepreneurial incubation process to overcome innovation market failure. However, factors that potentially influence the e...

Engines Driving Knowledge-based Technology Transfer in Business Incubators and Their Companies

Business incubators are designed to create change, and companies associate with them because they want to change. Acquiring, sharing and using information are the basis of the exchanges through which these changes are accomplished. The information exchange process thus provides a useful way to define the engines for the changes that accompany technology transfer. Van de Ven and Poole’s typology...

Research on Incubation Performance Influence Factors of China Information Technology Business Incubators with Grounded Theory

Five selected China IT business incubators are studied with grounded theory, after coding the interview data, we establish the model of influence factors that affect IT business incubator’s incubation performance with dimensions of the external factor, the internal factor and the associated factor. The external factors that affect the incubation performance are institution and industry environm...

Measuring Efficiency and Productivity Growth of New Technology-Based Firms in Business Incubators: The Portuguese Case Study of Madan Parque

Business incubators can play a major role in helping to turn a business idea into a technology-based organization that is economically efficient. However, there is a shortage in the literature regarding the efficiency evaluation and productivity evolution of the new technology-based firms (NTBFs) in the incubation scope. This study develops a model based on the data envelopment analysis (DEA) m...

Identifying Business Incubators Based on Their Real Activities: Evidence from China