Effectiveness Of Business Incubators Research Articles

Modeling of a Business Incubator Program for Islamic Youth Organizations for the Development of Superior Rural Products

By raising research questions about What is an effective business incubator strategy in developing superior products in rural areas? and How effective is the Business Incubator Program Modeling for Islamic Youth Organizations for Developing Superior Rural Products in Cilacap Regency, this study focuses on looking at the effectiveness of business incubators as well as the role of Islamic youth organizations in cultivating village potential so that they are able to drive the economy of their region. A qualitative descriptive approach carried out for 3 months was chosen as a technique for obtaining data. Research was conducted in sub-districts/villages that have superior products that can be developed through business incubators implemented by Islamic youth organizations in the village under the guidance of the village/sub-district. Furthermore, in determining informants a purposive sampling technique was used. Primary data (Interviews and Observations) and secondary data (Documentation and Literature) were extracted from research subjects to answer research questions. Furthermore, to describe the findings of this research, Donald Van Metter and Carl Van Horn's model is used with six variables that influence policy performance to analyze the effectiveness of OKp. Field findings provide an illustration that in simple terms, business incubation that can be carried out by Islamic Youth Organizations is a community empowerment strategy. This strategy is considered effective, especially since youth organizations have strength, namely a mass base, as well as organizational skills. The business incubation model with a rural community empowerment strategy leads to the classic model, namely joint discussions, joint deliberations. This model is effective, besides being easy and affordable.

Business incubators: mechanisms to boost business innovation capacity. Analysis of business incubators in the Community of Madrid

Objective: This research describes and validates how business incubators act as dynamic mechanisms that promote the innovation capacity of companies. Methodology: There are two parts. First, a review of the literature related to entrepreneurship, mainly from reports of organizations focused on entrepreneurship such as Funcas, GEM, European Commission, Spain Emprende, etc ... and, second, a Delphi analysis was carried out by entrepreneurship experts with different training and professional experience, from business incubators of the Community of Madrid, as it is the effect of business incubators on the innovation capacity of companies in Madrid that is under study. Results: The experts believe that the projects created in the business incubators are innovative projects that allow the implementation of technological advances or new forms of business organization reducing costs and development time. Their main purpose is to seek and help innovative projects that create a much more solid and dynamic business ecosystem and to lower the level of uncertainty. Therefore, the relationship between business incubators and innovation capacity (CTI) is clear, as they are among the best tools to allow innovation capacity to grow continuously and effectively, without the need for large investments. Limitations: As with any qualitative study, despite the attempt to quantify the results through the arithmetic mean, the results are restricted to interpretation, as the subject studied is of social interest but is not a topic of mass dissemination. To broaden responses and ensure the quality of our study, the Delphi methodology was chosen, and this restricts the number of respondents. Although we tried to expand the profile of our panel as much as possible, any bias and subjectivity that may exist cannot be removed completely. Due tothe cultural background, age or gender of the experts, this methodology is very dependent on the wording of the questions and how they are interpreted. Practical implications: This research allows for a greater understanding of the capacity for innovation of business incubators in Madrid, based on the opinion of experts in the areas of business incubators and entrepreneurship, with the main purpose of learning more about the functions and advantages of business incubators. Thus, entrepreneurs can better benefit from them and both private and public institutions can promote them.

Platforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: startup models and the role of business incubation

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the startup models adopted by entrepreneurs in launching platform enterprises, and the effectiveness of business incubators across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).Design/methodology/approachData reflecting origin, models, services, ownership and other variables were collected on over 600 platforms and 196 incubators, and were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.FindingsMarket portfolio of the platform startups is dominated by independent models, as incubators and accelerators were found to be inadequate in platform establishment within the region in terms of the services rendered to incubatees. The results also indicate that private ownership still dominates the startup ecosystem with a scant presence of public participation and almost a complete absence of public-private partnerships.Research limitations/implicationsThis exploratory study is constrained by a limited access to information on the platform ecosystem within the SSA region, curbing the scope of empirical work; but serves as a foundation for further investigations within the domain.Practical implicationsThe paper highlights the imperative for African Governments to make conscious efforts in driving enabling policies that will help bridge the gaps identified in facilitating the development of the region’s emergent platform economy.Originality/valueThe paper empirically elucidates the limited availability of critical resources necessary in supporting the successful development and growth of platform startups; and helps explain why the platform ecosystem within the region, though very active in the last decade, has not been laden with landmark and scaled innovations.

فعالیة حاضنات الاعمال في خلق القدرة التنافسیة للمؤسسة الجزائریة

The various developed and developing countries seek to rehabilitate theirinstitutions in order to overcome all the obstacles that would stand in front of the continuationand growth of these institutions, and help them overcome the burdens of the start-up phase, thecompletion of their projects, the efficiency of production and the satisfaction of the needs of themarket And to create them in order to compete in any market. For this reason, the problem wasraised by the effectiveness of business incubators (facilitation center and institutional incubator)in creating the competitiveness of economic institutions in Algeria?The descriptive approach presented the theoretical aspects of the subject variables. Theanalytical and statistical approach helped us in analyzing the opinions of the respondents in thesample of the study of 100 institutions on the possibility of institutional incubators in creatingthe competitiveness of the economic institution in Algeria to ensure in the results that there is astatistically significant relation Between institutional nurseries and facilitation centers in theirsupport of enterprise competitiveness.

Measuring the effect of business incubators on the innovation performance of start-ups

This article explores the role of business incubators on the innovation performance of start-ups; in addition, we also investigate how the incubation effect moderates other important factors drivin...

The effectiveness of business incubators as the element of the universities’ spin-off strategy in Russia

Abstract The common vision on business incubators considers them as an important part of the regional innovation infrastructure, with a special mission of innovation-based start-ups support and eco-systems creation. It seems beyond question that business incubators are also important elements of the universities’ system of technology transfer. University researchers and students create spin-off companies to commercialize valuable R&D results, while universities are interested in profits and knowledge sharing and, thus, nurture these spin-off companies via business incubators. Despite the prevalence of this vision, the problem of business incubators effectiveness assessment is not solved in a systematic way. One of the reasons is the diversity of models and institutional contexts in which business incubators act. In this article the system of performance indicators for universities, establishing business incubators, has been proposed. To develop this system, a questionnaire survey was conducted. A real options-driven approach is used for criteria selection.