Abstract

This paper focuses on a comparative study of university incubators (UIs) and non-university incubators in China. It firstly outlines the background of Chinese incubation industry, and then compares university incubators and non-university incubators in terms of sponsorship, types of entrepreneurs, location, and services at a general level. To make a specific analysis, it samples Chongqing University incubators and Caohejing technology business incubator (TBI) as a case study. Our findings show that the mission oriention, type of entrepreneurs, better services in pooling resources, public image, networking and funding help non-university incubator (Caohejing TBI) perform better than university incubators (Chongqing UI) in terms of income creation and survival rate of tenant firms.

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