Search results for "Business incubator"

New evidence on accelerator performance based on funding and location

2020

Seed accelerators (SAs) appear as a more advanced version of business incubators. These for-profit organizations in exchange of equity, help setting new start-ups by providing mentoring and funding during its first months. Due to their emergent nature, the impact and expectations of SAs remains largely unknown. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to throw new light on this field by empirically assessing for the first time the performance and prospects of these organizations through a survey of 116 SAs.,A model based on the Business Incubators literature is built with four categories covering size, location, age and profitability variables, leading to two hypotheses to be tested empirica…

Exploring a new incubation model for FinTechs: Regulatory sandboxes

2021

Research on incubation models indicates that incubators and accelerators are crucial catalysts for the development of start-ups. To facilitate start-ups in financial markets, several regulatory authorities have adopted a new incubation model called a ‘regulatory sandbox’. Regulatory sandboxes enable eligible applicants to test their technology-enabled financial solutions for a certain period of time (subject to conditions the regulator imposes). As such, these instruments allow innovation while preventing severe instability in financial markets caused by systemic risk. Despite their importance, management research has devoted little attention to studying how sandboxes operate as a new incub…

The Role of Business Plan Competitions in the Processes of Defining and Launching a New Venture. Cases of Companies Involved in the ‘StartCup’ Palerm…

2015

Academic Spin-Offs and Technological Innovation Diffusion In Less Successful Areas: A Viable System Approach

2011

This paper aims to analyze the role that academic spin offs play in enhancing and speeding up the development and transfer of technological innovation, particularly in less successful areas. The focus on todays’ knowledge-based economy, has increasingly shown that innovation is a social process (Gibbons et al, 1994; Chesbrough, 2003 and 2011) rooted on the interactions and knowledge exchanges among a variety of actors (such as firms, universities, research organizations, government institutions, and so on). Each of these actors is endowed with idiosyncratic and specialized sets of resources, knowledge and capabilities. As a result, the critical determinants of competitive/innovative advanta…

Augstkolu Biznesa inkubatori kā inovāciju veicinātāji Baltijas valstīs.

2016

Bakalaura darba tēma ir „Augstskolu biznesa inkubatori kā inovāciju veicinātāji Baltijas valstīs”. Bakalaura darba mērķis ir, balstoties uz teorētiskajām atziņām par inovāciju svarīgumu, biznesa inkubāciju un darbā veiktās aptaujas un intervijas analīzes pamata, izdarīt secinājumus par augstskolu biznesa inkubatoru kā inovāciju veicinošu uzņēmējdarbības atbalsta programmu. Veikt analīzi par Baltijas augstskolu inkubatoriem pilnīgam un izsmeļošam salīdzinājumam. Izpētīt LU biznesa inkubatora inovatīvās uzņēmējdarbības veicinošās metodes. Izstrādāt priekšlikumus augstskolu biznesa inkubatoru darbības uzlabošanai, par pamatu ņemot Latvijas Universitātes studentu biznesa inkubatoru. Bakaluara d…