Incubation Platform Research Articles

Innovative measurement, trade-off-synergy relationship and influencing factors for agricultural net carbon emissions and effective supply of agricultural products in China

Sensitive zone of global climate change has been formed in China, and it has become a hot topic how can agriculture ensure food security and the supply of important agricultural products while achieving the “Dual Carbon” goal in the country. Based on such background, this paper uses the IPCC carbon emission calculation method, environmental input-output model and economic-water-carbon coefficient method to measure agricultural net carbon emissions, adopts bivariate spatial auto-correlation analysis and SYS-GMM to explore separately the relationship between agricultural net carbon emissions and effective supply of agricultural products, as well as the carbon reduction effect, growth effect and reasonable range of green technology innovation. The results show that: (1) China's agricultural net carbon emissions reveal a spatial distribution of “higher in the east than in the west than in the center” and a temporal characteristic of increasing year by year; China's effective supply of agricultural products shows an increasing trend and a spatial distribution of “higher in the east than in the center than in the west” in 2006–2012 and “higher in the east than in the west than in the center” in 2013–2020. (2) In 2006, 2010, 2015 and 2020, the number of provinces that belong to low-low agglomeration trade-off zone, low-high agglomeration synergy zone, non-significant zone, high-low agglomeration non-trade-off-synergy zone and high-high agglomeration trade-off zone averagely accounted for 12.500 %, 30.000 %, 26.667 %, 9.167 % and 21.667 % of the totality, respectively. (3) The carbon reduction and production growth effects of green technology innovation both show an inverted “U-shape”, and green technology innovation is conducive to both reducing agricultural net carbon emissions and improving supply of agricultural products when it is within a reasonable range of greater than 0.930. (4) Green technology innovation not only has significant spatial and temporal heterogeneity impact, but also exhibits a differential effect on productive agricultural carbon emissions, agricultural trade carbon emissions, agricultural carbon sinks, total output of agricultural products and agricultural net imports in international trade. Therefore, it is proposed that China should establish and improve green technology innovation incubation platforms, guide all participants to ensure the investment and application of green technology products within a reasonable range, formulate and implement regional differential policies and plan in accordance with local conditions, drive ultimately coordinated promotion of agricultural carbon emission reduction and product supply guarantee and lay an important foundation for achieving high-quality economic development and efficient ecological protection.

The effect of microfluidic chip geometry on droplet clustering in a high throughput droplet incubation platform for single-cell analysis

High-throughput droplet incubation is an integral part of various lab-on-chip platforms. Packing droplets efficiently before sending them to the incubation region is essential. For this purpose, different oil extraction mechanisms have been used. Here, we propose one such oil extraction structure and study the effect of channel parameters on droplet clustering, especially the channel height relative to droplet size. Droplets relatively smaller than channel dimensions follow continuous flow dynamics. Hence, simple hydrodynamic resistance modeling flow inside the main and side channels could estimate their flow features. When the droplet diameter exceeds the channel height, its dynamics are observed to be deviating drastically from simple isolated droplet motion and hydrodynamic resistance network model. Though accurate, Eulerian–Lagrangian formulation for modeling two-component fluid flow becomes computationally expensive when dealing with many droplets. Hence, along with hydrodynamics modeling, we adopt a simplified hindrance model to incorporate the effects of modified drag force and emulsion viscosity. This model matches well with experimental results and reduces the design time. Finally, we built an efficient oil extraction and droplet incubation platform for high throughput (200–400 droplets/s) for incubating a large number of cell-encapsulated droplets (7 × 105–8.4 × 105) for a significant amount of time (30–70 min). This study offers insights into droplet dynamics in the oil extraction region, which can be further helpful in building an efficient lab-on-chip platform.

Design and implementation of a startup business incubation platform based on VAR model

Abstract This paper first analyzes the startup incubation platform’s design requirements and builds the application system’s functional structure and architecture. Secondly, the technical analysis of the startup business incubation platform is carried out to model the complex system with multi-factor synergy using time series and capture the linear interdependence between multiple time series with the VAR model. Finally, the startup incubation platform design’s performance was tested. The results show that the system response time slows as the number of users increases, and the longest response time is 2.3 seconds when the number of users is 4000. It shows that the startup incubation platform meets the technical requirements and can fulfill the talent incubation needs of enterprises.

Performance Model of Youth Entrepreneurship Platform in the Context of Common Wealth Returning to Hometown

The construction of business incubator platforms to assist young people who return to their hometowns to launch their own enterprises is urgently needed because youth entrepreneurship is seen as a crucial component of rural revitalization. Based on this, the authors of this study distributed surveys to 468 returning youths in rural startup spaces to gather data, built a structural model, and conducted interviews with 13 entrepreneurial youths to examine the relationship between government policies, services, and the design of rural startup spaces, as well as the self-efficacy of returning entrepreneurial youths and the innovation performance of businesses. The results demonstrate how important government policies are in encouraging youth entrepreneurship in their local communities. It has the potential to enhance both the development of rural crowdsourcing spaces and the self-efficacy of young entrepreneurs, thereby enhancing the innovative capabilities of local entrepreneurial businesses. Therefore, in order to encourage economic development in rural areas, the government should improve pertinent support measures, enhance the development of business incubation platforms, and encourage young people moving back to their hometowns to start their own businesses.

The Genesis and Self-Reliance of Indonesian Local Game Developers as the National Creative Workers in Contemporary Indonesia

This study examines the contemporary condition of Indonesian local game developers as a part of the national creative workers. The case study method is applied in parallel with the participant’s observation and the results were retrieved by exploring and comparing interviews and observation findings. The subjects of this study include state-related ministries (The Ministry of Manpower and The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy), 12 founders of the Indonesian first-generation local game developer studios, 10 experienced local game workers, and two representatives of the Indonesian Game Association as a labor union. The results figured out the characteristics of Indonesian local game developers as youth-subcultural movements and recent challenges of state patronage, incentives, and human resource issues. The situation forced them to survive and organize a supportive labor union as a major incubator platform and crowdfunding scheme in developing local games.

Digitalization in entrepreneurship education and its effect on entrepreneurial capacity building

Entrepreneurship education, the process of knowledge, skill, competency, and attitude development, aims to maximize the effectiveness of the entrepreneurial capacity building. The pandemic boosted the digital transformation of higher education and brought the online incubation platform NETMIB to life. This paper introduces this unique platform solution and utilizes online opportunities for skill and attitude assessment. An online survey-based research method was applied, and an online Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) Index was developed as a valid scale for measuring entrepreneurial attitudes in online incubation programs. Based on the findings, student idea owners in the online incubation process have a significantly higher propensity to engage in business activities and a stronger desire for independence and achievement. The findings of this paper can contribute to the targeting and development of educational interventions in the incubation programs, and the online EO Index can be a useful tool among the performance measures of various incubation programs.Summary: Entrepreneurship education, the process of knowledge, skill, competency, and attitude development, aims to maximize the effectiveness of the entrepreneurial capacity building. The pandemic boosted the digital transformation of higher education and brought the online incubation platform NETMIB (Network of multidisciplinary ideation and business model generation) to life. This paper introduces this unique platform solution of online incubation and utilizes online opportunities for skill and attitude assessment. Since education aims to influence entrepreneurial capacity, measured by attitudes, the paper develops a self-assessment tool for online entrepreneurship education. Hypothesizes that there are significant differences in the attitudes of the members according to their role in the online incubation process. An online survey-based research method was used, and an entrepreneurial attitude construct was created concerning the member’s desire for innovation, personal control, achievement, and self-esteem. Based on the findings, student idea owners in the online incubation process have a significantly higher propensity to engage in business activities and a stronger desire for independence and achievement. The findings of this paper contribute to the targeting and development of educational interventions in incubation programs, and the online Entrepreneurial Orientation Index can be a useful tool among the performance measures of various incubation programs.

Difficulties of Connotation Upgrading of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubation Platform in a Higher Vocation College

Upgrading platforms for innovation and entrepreneurial incubation poses several challenges, especially in improving connotations. In this context, this study aimed to determine the difficulties of connotation upgrading in innovation and entrepreneurship incubation platforms in a higher vocation college in Henan Province, China, during the School Year 2023-2024. Data needed for this study were collected from a sample of 253 teacher-respondents using a self-made survey questionnaire that has passed the rigorous tests of validity and reliability. Data gathered showed a high level of difficulties among teacher-respondents in connotation upgrading of innovation and entrepreneurship incubation platforms in higher vocational colleges. The ensuing analysis likewise showed no significant difference in the difficulties of connotation upgrading innovation and entrepreneurship incubation platforms in higher vocational colleges when teacher respondents were grouped according to demographics. The results of the study call for higher education institutions to foster innovation and entrepreneurship by putting those recommendations into practice in the conclusion section and giving students the tools and resources they need to thrive in the cutthroat world of contemporary business.

The Influence of Digital Environment Factors on the Development of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Russian Regions

The relevance of the study of entrepreneurial ecosystems in a digital environment is caused by the presence within specific regions of network relationships between entrepreneurship, business support institutions, scientific and educational organizations, and the state in the context of the transformation of information and technology exchange processes. In the face of the challenges of the digital economy, there is a need to determine the points of growth of regional ecosystems and identify the effects of the impact of transformational factors on the relational components of the ecosystem, which are formed by the new digital environment. The aim of the study is to model the effectiveness of the impact of the digital environment on indicators characterizing the level of development of entrepreneurial ecosystems in the space-time continuum. The research hypothesis is that the factors of the digital environment stimulate the formation of entrepreneurial ecosystems in the region. Methods: we used techniques and methods of clustering, correlation and regression analysis, and space-time modeling. Results: the authors substantiated the composition of the basic components of the model of the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem, formulated the key principles of its functioning, and determined the criteria for its condition. We have selected and structured indicators indicating the impact of the digital environment on the effectiveness of the functioning of entrepreneurial ecosystems. The article contains data on the identification of regions with pronounced signs of the presence of entrepreneurial ecosystems. The authors have established the features of their geographical location. We have compiled models of the impact of digitalization on the criteria indicators of regional business ecosystems. The study determined the positive impact on the profitability growth of the presence of fast-growing companies in the region, the information and computer technology sector, and the size of its state and investment support. The authors have identified a direct dependence of business concentration on information resources, infrastructure, and financial components. We have established the degree of influence of acceleration and incubation platforms, scalable projects in the field of end-to-end technologies and investments in IT projects on the number of fast-growing companies and startups. The results develop the theoretical propositions of regional business ecosystems, criteria for their condition and functioning, and the influence of digitalization factors on their development. The obtained results can be used for the formation and adjustment of programs for the implementation of strategies in the field of digital transformation of the regional economy.

PERANCANGAN PLATFORM INKUBATOR BISNIS SEBAGAI UPAYA PENINGKATAN KOMPETENSI PELAKU UMKM UNTUK MENGGERAKAN PEREKONOMIAN INDONESIA

<table width="661" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="520"><p align="center"><strong>Abstract</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table>The role of MSMEs is very large in the Indonesian economy, the contribution of MSMEs is 97% of the workforce and 61.9% of the contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, MSMEs in Indonesia still faces several challenges to developing and improving their business. The Indonesian government implemented stimulus in dealing with and controlling the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and was effective when compared to other countries. In 2021, Indonesia's real GDP index has reached pre-pandemic conditions at the level of 101.5, while neighboring countries namely Malaysia are at the level of 96.4, the Philippines are at the level of 95.5 and Thailand is still at the level of 94.4. The purpose of this research is to design a Business Incubator Platform in an effort to increase the competency of MSME players through a business incubator. If the competence of MSME players matches current needs, it is hoped that Indonesian MSMEs will be able to compete and improve the Indonesian economy. The method used in this study is the Waterfall Model. While the stages carried out in this method are the stages of system requirements analysis, design, implementation, and system maintenance. While system testing uses the Black Box testing model which focuses on system functionality. The result of this research is an Incubator Platform that can be used by MSME players to improve their business competence. To join this platform, UMKM players register through the platform, after being verified by the admin team, MSME players can use the features that have been provided.

Understanding Incubated Startups’ Continuance Intention towards Entrepreneurial Incubation Platforms: Empirical Evidence from China

In recent years, despite the rapid growth in the number of entrepreneurial incubation platforms in China, many of them are experiencing the sustainability dilemma caused by the loss of incubated startups. However, there is a dearth of research that explores how to promote incubated startups’ continuance intention towards entrepreneurial incubation platforms. Addressing this gap, the present study develops a dedication–constraint model based on the dual model framework, investigating the distinct impacts of entrepreneurial support and relationship-specific investment on incubated startups’ continuance intention towards entrepreneurial incubation platforms. A sample of 534 incubated startups in China was employed to test the research model, and the structural equation modelling was adopted for data analysis. Empirical results indicate that the dedication-based mechanism and constraint-based mechanism simultaneously, yet differently, affect incubated startups’ continuance intention towards entrepreneurial incubation platforms. Specifically, in the dedication-based mechanism, social support and technical support are revealed as the antecedents to relationship satisfaction that significantly leads to benefit-based dependence. As for the constraint-based mechanism, setup activity is the only salient indicator to termination costs, which consequently has a positive effect on cost-based dependence. Incubated startups’ continuance intention towards entrepreneurial incubation platforms is influenced by both benefit-based dependence and cost-based dependence, ultimately.

Innovation Elements, Incubation Capacity, and Incubation Performance in Biomedical Incubation Platforms: Moderating Role of Customized Services.

Biomedical incubation platforms make full use of innovation elements, constantly absorbing, integrating, and allocating various resources and innovating the incubation service mode, an important path to improving the performance of innovation incubation. Based on resource-based theory, network theory, and value chain theory, we proposed the conceptual model and research hypothesis for the relationship between innovation elements, incubation capacity, and innovation incubation performance in biomedical incubation platforms, with customized service as a moderating variable. The empirical results show that innovation elements have a significant positive impact on the improvement and transition of incubation capacity. Incubation capacity has a significant positive impact on innovation incubation performance in biomedical incubation platforms. Customized service plays a significant positive regulatory role between incubation capacity and innovation incubation performance in biomedical incubation platforms.

Development of Model for Technoprenuership for Students at Universitas Sumatera Utara

The number of entrepreneurs who are expected to become innovative industries in Indonesia only reached 0.24% of Indonesia's total population. College plays an important role in motivating young graduates to become technopreneurship. The number of innovations that arise compared to innovative product innovations is still very minimum every year. The main problem faced by students is that 52.15% of students don’t continue their innovation products because they don’t get funding 13.50% of students don’t continue their innovation products because they don’t know what to do, do, and don't get technical guidance, 11.66% of students want to graduate on time, 10.44% don’t get mentors/coaches who know how to develop and guide students well, 6.75% of students that there is no incubation platform, 5.5% of students do not dare to take the risk to enter the technopreneur world. Researchers then designed a dynamic model of technopreneur incubation and simulated a design model that aims to see how far the model can help innovative products get funding. The simulation was conducted with three scenarios. The result was 17.6% increase when the incubation program was extended, an increase of 27.46% when there was an improvement in infrastructure and 21.47% when mentor capacity was lowered.

Improving Education for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Chinese Technical Universities: A Quest for Building a Sustainable Framework

The global economic trends and the winds of technological change have elevated the status of integration between industry and education for innovation and entrepreneurship to that of being a national strategic priority of China. However, for a long time prior to that, the many differences between the industrial and educational systems have caused a rift between education for innovation and entrepreneurship and professional education, a profound disconnection between professional education and the local industries, and the subsequent disinterest of entrepreneurial mentors. In this paper, we analyze the status of education for innovation and entrepreneurship in Chinese technical universities. It is pointed out that technical universities should deepen the integration between the industry and education for innovation and entrepreneurship in order to mitigate the imbalance between the supply side of the higher education talent training and the demand side of industrial development. It is also argued that technical universities should change their talent training paradigm, which includes a makeover of the organizational structure and of the curricular system, as well as make amends in the innovation ecosystem with respect to the organization of incubation platforms and of teacher–student teams, in order to promote national and regional economic development, as well as social progress. A method to evaluate the performance of the education for innovation and entrepreneurship in Chinese technical universities, based on specific performance indicators including patents filled, publications, awards in competitions, and acquired funding and on certain non-specific ones including organizational arrangements and satisfaction rates, is presented and then applied to the specific case of the Changzhou Institute of Technology.

Development of virtual incubation platform for start-ups and college students

Entrepreneurship in India is evolved through start-ups and funding. For rural Indian students, this is still a dream. The goal of this paper is to create a virtual incubator for rural students in India. It will be an online portal that will provide rural students with the opportunity to share their business concepts, form concepts with the help of mentors, gain product maturity, find suitable funding sources, and provide space for product launches and sales. The product development can be done onsite at the student and the product can be demonstrated through the portal. Portal development uses Next.js, Firestore, Firebase Authentication, Socket IO, Node.js, etc. This document describes the process of developing the necessary programming framework and project management methodologies to implement this portal application. This paper also provides screenshots of the development of the prototype of this web application. This work contributes bright ideas for mentors and investors.

Deployment of combined technologies to smallholder farmers in Kenya: TAAT Clearinghouse technical report series 002

Deployment of combined technologies to smallholder farmers in Kenya: TAAT Clearinghouse technical report series 002

Incubation model of the Maker Spaces in China: co-working or co-creating?

ABSTRACT The Maker Space, as a new kind of incubation platform with Chinese characteristics, has developed rapidly in response to government policies. Two divergent incubation models exist in the Chinese market, but existing literature does not provide enough solid evidence regarding which model is better for start-up developments. Combined with evolutionary game theory, this paper analyzes the evolutionary stability strategy of Maker Space-start-ups-Universities & Research Institutes (MSUR) collaborative innovation behaviour and, separately, its impact factors under ‘co-working’ and ‘co-creating’ incubation model. A numerical simulation is conducted to verify evolutionary game results and the effects of impact factors on behavioural evolution. The research indicates that different managerial strategies in incubation models are vital for innovation entities’ collaborative decisions and the growth of incubated start-ups. A ‘co-creating’ model is relatively better for collaborative innovation, but a ‘co-working’ model also has applicability.

Analysis of Value Creation Process of Platform-driven Scientific and Technological Innovation Value Chain: the Perspective of Informationization

At present, the innovation environment of science and technology innovation platform is constantly changing, which has gradually changed from the situation of science and technology innovation among single elements to the information comparison among the whole innovation value chain. In this paper, science and technology innovation platform is divided into four types: pure research platform, industrial technology research platform, business incubation platform and public service platform. It deeply analyzes the informationization process of innovation value chain driven by science and technology innovation platform, including basic research, applied research, experimental development and commercialization. By analyzing the role of knowledge capital, technology capital, venture capital and other information resources in science and technology innovation platform, it explores the value flow among platforms. It is found that the stock capital and variable capital of scientific and technological innovation are not a transformation, but realize the increment and cyclic accumulation of income along the innovation chain step by step. The research expands the analysis scope of informatization theory, combs the value creation process of science and technology innovation platform, and contributes to risk avoidance and benefit distribution.

The micro-foundations of global business incubation: Stakeholder engagement and strategic entrepreneurial partnerships

This paper explores the micro-foundations of global business incubation by examining how stakeholders influence the development of technology business incubation platforms and entrepreneurial activities in the context of strategic entrepreneurial partnerships. By drawing from stakeholder theory, we propose a conceptual framework that articulates how stakeholder engagement—including local governments, universities, and business support organizations—varies over time by engaging with entrepreneurs in the form of collaborative partnerships. This paper investigates two technology business incubators in China and the UK through a comparative lens and offers empirical evidence to support its theoretical argumentation. From a temporal perspective, we found that different types of stakeholders play different roles in deploying three distinctive mechanisms—namely, initiating, orchestrating and partaking—during the developmental trajectory involved in the launch and development of entrepreneurial ventures. Importantly, from a micro-foundational perspective, we highlight the agency-orientated activities championed by entrepreneurial organizations situated in global strategic partnership contexts.

Smart-lab as an example of the incubation and acceleration platform for start-ups – challenges and barriers

Purpose – The aim of the article is to indicate the role and importance of acceleration platforms in stimulating the development of the start-up market in Poland, on the example of the Smart-Lab incubation and acceleration platform, as a part of the “e-Pionier” project implemented from EU funds under the “Polska Cyfrowa” Program. Research method – The research methods are: analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, desk research, case study. Results – Five MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) were obtained, constituting an original, innovative Smart-Lab Project solution in response to particular socio-economic problems reported by local government units.Originality / value / implications / recommendations – The article highlights the issues of the start-up market and the role of acceleration platforms in stimulating the development of this market, as part of the perceived need for a wider analysis of this kind of research problem.

Deep Integration between Innovative & Entrepreneurship Education and Specialized Engineering Education

The integration between entrepreneurship education and specialized engineering education is a key issue in higher education. This article summarized the research and practice of innovative and entrepreneurial engineering application-oriented talents training pattern for vehicle engineering in Wenzhou University. Deep integration between innovative & entrepreneurship education and specialized engineering education are composed of the theoretical teaching system, the practice teaching system, the combination of production and research, the entrepreneurship education culture system, and the incubation platform. Course content is optimized through the integration of teaching, scientific research, and social quality resources. Through project-based case teaching and the guaranteed mechanism of the integration of production and education, the content of innovative and entrepreneurship education is permeated to the specialized engineering curriculum. Graduates in the last three years indicate that the reform on specialized engineering education was effective and worth to practice.