Business incubators hatch start-ups, helping them to survive their early stage and to create a solid foundation for sustainable growth by providing services and access to knowledge. The great practical relevance led to a strong interest of researchers and a high output of scholarly publications, which made the field complex and scattered. To organize the research on incubators and provide a systematic overview of the field, we conducted bibliometric performance analyses and science mappings. The performance analyses depict the temporal development of the number of incubator publications and their citations, the most cited and most productive journals, countries, and authors, and the 20 most cited articles. The author keyword co-occurrence analysis distinguishes six, and the bibliographic coupling seven research themes. Based on a content analysis of the science mappings, we propose a research framework for future research on business incubators.

Technological change and development have been ongoing in the motion picture industry since its beginnings some 125 years ago. What further advancements of digitalization can be expected over the next decade and what are its implications for the industry’s value chain? To answer this question, we conducted an international two-stage Delphi study. The results suggested a more frequent use of smartphones as cameras, the emergence of full digital film sets and digital star avatars, as well as advancements in VR-based and interactive movies. The findings imply challenges for traditional players in the motion picture value chain. Production technology becomes both simpler and more complex, leading to the threat of new entrants.

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Real options are widely applied in strategic and operational decision-making, allowing for managerial flexibility in uncertain contexts. Increased scholarly interest has led to an extensive but fragmented research landscape. We aim to measure and systematize the research field quantitatively. To achieve this goal, we conduct bibliometric performance analyses and bibliographic coupling analyses with an in-depth content review. The results of the performance analyses show an increasing interest in real options since the beginning of the 2000s and identify the most influential journals and authors. The science mappings reveal six and seven research clusters over the last two decades. Based on an in-depth analysis of their themes, we develop a research framework comprising antecedents, application areas, internal and external contingencies, and uncertainty resolution through real option valuation or reasoning. We identify several gaps in that framework, which we propose to tackle in future research.

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Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Introduction A negative self-rated occupational prognosis hinders the vocational reintegration of patients after cardiac rehabilitation (CR). Several studies reveal that these patients often show reduced physical performance as well as higher psychosocial burden. Although the current evidence indicates that self-rated (negative) occupational prognosis of the patients in CR is a multi-factorial issue, there are no studies on subjective factors determining that prognosis. Purpose The aim of this study was to understand what subjective factors determine a self-rated negative occupational prognosis of patients in CR. Methods A single-centre qualitative study using thematic analysis was conducted in the fourth quarter of 2021. Data was collected by two researchers using in-depth interviews with 20 patients with self-rated negative occupational prognosis and 5 patients with non-impaired prognosis. We interviewed working-age patients (range 18-60 years) who were admitted to a rehabilitation program usually within 14 days after an acute cardiac event. The participants were selected by theoretical sampling. All interviews were recorded, transcribed and coded. We concluded the codes in main themes. Results In our analysis of interview texts we extrapolated seven themes: 1) environmental factors (social support, requalification opportunities, industry-specific occupational risks); 2) personal factors (professional skills, knowledge about own impairments, attitude toward future); 3) factors that occurred before a cardiac event (previous illness, unhealthy lifestyle, familial predisposition to disease); 4) factors that occurred after a cardiac event (health stigma and discrimination, disabilities, changed personal priorities); 5) patient's health perception including physical capacity; 6) possibilities to change the working conditions; 7) heart-focused anxiety. The themes 1 to 4 can be considered as an umbrella term for multiple individual factors. However, the themes 5 to 7, which indicate specific determining subjective factors for self-rated occupational prognosis, appeared in most of the interviews. Conclusion We conclude that the self-rated occupational prognosis is determined by a complex set of individual factors. However, three themes – patient´s health perception, opportunity to adjust work place, and resilience towards heart-focused anxiety- were mentioned by the majority of patients regarding their self-accessed occupational prognosis. Affected patients are likely to require a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program, whereas these three themes might be addressed by social workers and psychologists.