Technology Business Incubation: An overview of the state of knowledge

Mian, Sarfraz A.; Lamine, Wadid; Fayolle, Alain

doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2016.02.005

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“…First it addresses the plea (e.g. Phan et al 2005;Mian et al 2016) for more international research on TBIs by being one of the few studies to date to focus on their role within China, a fast growing Asian transition economy. Second, much of the existing research on TBIs focuses on detailed evidence from single or multiple case studies, limiting the possibility of generalising results beyond a specific context (McAdam et al 2016).…”

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“…First, Mian et al (2016)carried out a survey of the existing literature and found that the most researched theme is incubator value added, covering tenant support, economic and regional development impact, and university-industry technology transfer. Second, previous studies tend to focus on one or more TBI case studies and are therefore unable to consider the effect of different contextual factors on the impact of TBIs.…”

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The graduation performance of technology business incubators in China’s three tier cities: the role of incubator funding, technical support, and entrepreneurial mentoring

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2016

J Technol Transf

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This study examines the effects of technology business incubator (TBI)'s funding, technical support and entrepreneurial mentoring on the graduation performance of new technology-based firms in China's three tier cities. Using a new dataset on all TBIs and incubated new technology-based firms from government surveys conducted over five consecutive years from 2009 to 2013 combined with archival and handcollected data, we find the effects of incubator services on the early growth of new technology-based firms vary according to the local context. Technical support facilities and entrepreneurial mentoring from TBIs are found to have significantly and positively influenced the early development of the firms in the four most affluent tier 1 cities, whilst these effects become less pronounced for the tier 2 and tier 3 cities. These two services are also found to influence graduation performance in the government and university types of TBI respectively. Results support the notion that the effectiveness of an incubator's services is shaped by the level of a city's socio-economic development and that the city location of a TBI does impact the graduation performance of its incubatees.

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The graduation performance of technology business incubators in China’s three tier cities: the role of incubator funding, technical support, and entrepreneurial mentoring

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2016

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“…The concept of business incubation experienced a considerable evolution and division into several similar institutions and approaches (Mian et al 2016). After the first private incubator was established in New York in 1959 (Lewis 2001) and the first public incubator in Philadelphia in 1964 (Campbell and Allen 1987), business incubation diffused slowly during the 1960s and 1970s (Hackett and Dilts 2004).…”

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“…Only recently, research focusing primarily on the phenomenon of business incubators themselves gained traction. We identified a few recent bibliometric and review studies regarding the field of business incubation in general (Albort-Morant and Ribeiro-Soriano 2016; Hackett and Dilts 2004;Mian et al 2016;Phan et al 2005) and one such study regarding university incubators in particular (McAdam et al 2006). Each provides some important insights into and overviews of the topic, but at the same time leaves some equally important questions unaddressed.…”

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“…Hence, we learn little about theoretical frameworks used or new concepts introduced. Mian et al (2016), introducing to their special issue on business incubation, provided the most recent literature review. They show a growing interest in the topic and point to the phenomenon of accelerators as a newly emerging, relevant phenomenon for which only very limited research exists.…”

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Business incubators and accelerators: a co-citation analysis-based, systematic literature review

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A long and rich research tradition exists on the phenomenon of business incubators since this kind of venture support institution first emerged. One can observe an increasing heterogeneity of incubation beyond the traditional mainstream focus on regional development and university-based incubators. In the last decade, in particular the phenomenon of accelerators as a particular form of incubators received increasing research interest. A few literature reviews started summarizing the field, but left some important issues unanswered. This systematic review study contributes to this effort deriving current themes and a research agenda. We find that open innovation and social capital theory increasingly complement the resource-based view as frameworks to understand business incubation. Moreover, the phenomenon of private corporate incubators and accelerators gains traction, both in entrepreneurship theory and practice.

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Accelerator expertise: Understanding the intermediary role of accelerators in the development of the Bangalore entrepreneurial ecosystem

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Bhagavatula

2018

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Research Summary: To understand the intermediary role of accelerators in the developing regional entrepreneurial ecosystem of Bangalore, we analyze data from 54 interviews with accelerator graduates, accelerator managers, and other ecosystem stakeholders and from 49 websites, 13 online video interviews, 26 online news sources, and 301 pages of policy documents. Specifically, we adopt a socially situated entrepreneurial cognition approach to theorize how accelerator expertise, existing at a meso‐level, intermediates between (micro‐level) founders and the (macro‐level) ecosystem. In our model, four types of accelerator expertise—connection, development, coordination, and selection—together increase stakeholders’ commitment to the entrepreneurial ecosystem, leading to venture validation (success or failure) and ecosystem additionality. These findings indicate that accelerators contribute to ecosystems in a way that is distinct from, but supportive of, building individual ventures. Managerial Summary: Accelerators are a new form of entrepreneurial support organization. These organizations typically focus on developing individual start‐ups, but we find that they also help develop entrepreneurial ecosystems. They do so by acting as a bridge between start‐ups and the broader entrepreneurial environmental resources by: (a) helping form connections, (b) helping develop individual start‐ups, (c) helping coordinate the right match among the various players in the ecosystem, and (d) helping select mentors and founders with the appropriate motivation and knowledge. As these accelerators apply this expertise in this go‐between role, they help build commitment to the broader ecosystem. Furthermore, they enable success (or fast failure) of individual start‐ups and do so in a way that develops the overall entrepreneurial capacity of the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Technology Business Incubation: An overview of the state of knowledge

Cited by 352 publications

References 50 publications

The graduation performance of technology business incubators in China’s three tier cities: the role of incubator funding, technical support, and entrepreneurial mentoring

The graduation performance of technology business incubators in China’s three tier cities: the role of incubator funding, technical support, and entrepreneurial mentoring

Business incubators and accelerators: a co-citation analysis-based, systematic literature review

Accelerator expertise: Understanding the intermediary role of accelerators in the development of the Bangalore entrepreneurial ecosystem

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