Why are small public incubators 'lagging behind'? Learning from disability in the selection practices of a French incubator

Gabarret, Inès; Jaouen, Annabelle; Nakara, Walid A.; Vedel, Benjamin

doi:10.1504/ijesb.2014.065679

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“…In addition, case study is a widely used and accepted method of conducting social science research (Yin, 2009). Specifically, a single case study approach has been used to examine dynamic capabilities generation in firms (De-Pablos-Heredero, Fernández-Renedo, and Blanco-Callejo 2017; Blanco-Callejo and De-Pablos-Heredero 2019; Lawson and Samson 2001;Lazonick and Prencipe 2005;Verona and Ravasi 2003) and to explore business accelerators from different perspectives (Battistella et al, 2017;Gabarret, Jaouen, Nakara, & Vedel, 2014;Tricahyono, Alamanda, Anggadwita, Prabowo, & Yuldinawati, 2018). Therefore, the use of this method has come to be regarded as favorable and reliable for our study.…”

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Cómo las aceleradoras de empresas fomentan las capacidades dinámicas de las start-ups: un estudio de caso

García-Ochoa

2020

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Objective: This study explores how business accelerators programs can impact on the successful growth of their accelerated start-ups based on the dynamic capabilities’ perspective. The author investigates business accelerators practices and tools in supporting new ventures development with the aim of addressing the following research question: To what extend can start-ups benefit from participating in an accelerator program from the dynamic capabilities’ perspective? Methodology: Given the lack of literature on business acceleration practices and on how them influences a start-up’s dynamic capabilities generation, the authors conducted an exploratory case study in a Spanish business accelerator. Results: The business accelerator provide startups with a mix of services embedded in specific practices and tools resulting in the generation of the dynamic capabilities of sensing the market, absorption, integration, and innovation in its startups. Limitations: This study focuses on a single case study resulting in a limited generalization of its findings. Practical implications: This paper open new paths for business accelerators and other institution decision makers by giving guidelines to design business acceleration programs allowing them to allocate resources in a more rational way. It also offers a valuable perspective for founders on the ways of satisfying their needs to complete their business potential. It also offers them an initial checklist of practices to be aware of when deciding to apply to a business accelerator. Also, we add a new perspective to study business accelerator contributions and shed some light on what specific accelerators’ tools and practices may facilitate positive effects in startups.

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Cómo las aceleradoras de empresas fomentan las capacidades dinámicas de las start-ups: un estudio de caso

García-Ochoa

2020

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“…Selection criteria are designed to realize the objectives of the incubator (Allen and McCluskey, 1990). With flexible or broad selection criteria, the incubator is able to attract tenants from a larger pool of potential tenants; with stricter selection criteria, the incubator can better provide niched services and networks (Gabarret et al, 2014;.…”

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Incubator specialization and size: Divergent paths towards operational scale

Klofsten

Lundmark

Wennberg

et al. 2020

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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Magnus KlofstenKlofsten is a professor and founding director of Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at Linköping University, Sweden. His research is oriented towards the early growth and development of technology-based firms, financing young ventures and university-industry relations. Klofsten is as acting research leader at the Helix Competence Centre and member of Agora Link Centre for researcher mobility and commercialization of life science technologies. Erik LundmarkLundmark's research focuses entrepreneurship and the emergence of new organisation(s). Currently he studies the factors that underpin the so-called liability of newness (the increased mortality among new organisations compared to their more established counterparts) and the emergence of new market categories. Erik is also interested in how we can facilitate reflexivity through making the assumptions underpinning entrepreneurship research, which are often implicit, explicit and subject to scrutiny. Karl WennbergWennberg is a professor of organization and entrepreneurship at Linköping University and research fellow at the Ratio institute. His research broadly focuses on Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Organization Theory. He is currently managing a large research project on entrepreneurial teams hosted in incubators, and a project on organizational diversity. Megan BankMrs. Bank is a PhD student at the Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden. Her research is within the sustainable incubator area. Incubator specialization and size2 Abstract: Research on incubators show that size is important in achieving efficiency and networking benefits for clients. However, little research has focused on what factors influence incubator size. We theorize and show partial support for size benefits to incubator specialization. Analyses of the relationship between size and four distinct specialization strategies in a sample of 96 European incubators show that incubator size is positively related to a strategic focus on universities and research institutes as recruitment channels and to a focus on sustainability, but not to a regional or industry focus. Paradoxically, tenants with a focus other than sustainability often dominate sustainability-oriented incubators, suggesting that sustainability may be more of a legitimating strategy than an explicit selection criterion.

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“…The incubator's attractiveness to high‐quality incubatees depends on its selection criteria for potential incubatees; one of the critical selection criteria is whether the incubator uses an industry diversification strategy or a specialized strategy for choosing and investing resources in startups (Gabarret et al, 2014). Researchers have examined the scope of diversification or specialization of startups in incubators (Sherman and Chappell, 1998); diversified incubators include incubatees from a wide variety of fields, while specialized incubators focus on incubatees companies active in a specific industry or field.…”

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The downsides of specialization: the impact of business incubator's specialization on startups' R&D efficiency and venture capital financing

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Business incubation is a combination of business development processes, infrastructure, and people which is intended to nurture new businesses through their early stages. Before joining an incubator, many startups attempt to find a good‐fit incubator, but the incubator actually decides which startups are in its portfolio. We investigated the impact of incubator specialization – the percentage of competitors in the same incubator – on the startups' R&D efficiency. We measured R&D efficiency as the ratio of the number of the current year's applied patents of a startup divided by its R&D expenditure in the previous year. By analyzing survey data from startups positioned in incubators in China over a 3‐year period, we found that greater incubator specialization decreases startups' R&D efficiency, and through which incubator specialization indirectly decreases the startups' venture capital funding. The incubator's specialization is less likely to reduce R&D efficiency in startups where the startup has greater specialized technical knowledge.

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Why are small public incubators 'lagging behind'? Learning from disability in the selection practices of a French incubator

Cited by 7 publications

References 57 publications

Cómo las aceleradoras de empresas fomentan las capacidades dinámicas de las start-ups: un estudio de caso

Cómo las aceleradoras de empresas fomentan las capacidades dinámicas de las start-ups: un estudio de caso

Incubator specialization and size: Divergent paths towards operational scale

The downsides of specialization: the impact of business incubator's specialization on startups' R&D efficiency and venture capital financing

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