Are technology business incubators fulfilling their objectives? a study of the tbi's performance located in Brazil

Abstract

Technology business incubators (TBI) are considered an alternative for promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, employment and income generation, the maintenance of companies and consequently, local and regional development. However, despite the high number of incubators and investment made, the initiatives to assess the results of incubators are limited; little is known about the success of these in supporting the creation and development of new businesses. Within this context, this research analyzed the performance of technology business incubators located in Brazil. According to the proposed objectives, this research is of an exploratory, descriptive and analytical nature, in a quantitative approach that used a survey as a research strategy, obtaining a sample of 97 incubators researched, in a universe of 112 technology business incubators. Through the data analysis, it can be concluded, according to the results presented by the TBI surveyed, that these are beneath the fulfillment of the objectives that they propose so that they are not contributing effectively to the local and regional development. Thus, it is suggested that the TBI's managers reflect on the real reasons why the researched organizations are not achieving the purposes that justify their existence.

Performance indicators for technology business incubators in Indian higher educational institutes

“…There is no literature which is suggestive of performance metrices for TBIs in Indian HEIs. The available indicators in the literature are mainly from developed countries and authors like Silva and Da Cunha (2018) opined that models for evaluating efficiency of incubator which can be used in one country may not be fully applicable in another country. Manimala and Vijay (2012) have categorically mentioned that the models for incubation used in western countries cannot and should not be applied in the emerging economies blindly.…”

“…Various indicators have been proposed in various studies for measuring performance of business as well as for technology incubators located in various countries. Various authors like, Manimala and Vijay (2012), Silva and Da Cunha (2018) are of the opinion that neither the performance measurement models which are being used for measuring performance of an incubator in western world should be used for measuring performance of an incubator in emerging economies nor performance models used for measuring performance of one type or class of incubator should be used for measuring performance of another type of incubator. It is pertinent to mention here that few authors like Sarfaraz A. Mian (Mian, 1994a(Mian, , 1994b(Mian, , 1996(Mian, , 1997(Mian, , 2011, Lalkaka (1996) Chan and La, (2005), Al-Mubaraki et al (2015), Wann et al (2017), Binsawad et al (2019) have used certain indicators for assessing performance of TBIs, whereas other studies have used them or similar type of indicators for assessing performance of other types of incubators and business incubation process in whole.…”