Building Futures or Stealing Secrets?

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Specialization as strategy for business incubators: An assessment of the Central German Multimedia Center (2008, background): “That is a highly valuable intangible resource, especially for newly founded or young firms, which do not possess any reputation and must develop legitimacy in the market (see Westhead and Batstone, 1998; Ferguson and Olofsson, 2004; Studdard, 2006; McAdam and Marlow, 2007).”
Cooperation patterns of incubator firms and the impact of incubator specialization: Empirical evidence from Germany (2010, background): “…reluctance to share information within the BI community because ideas, business secrets (e.g., with respect to funding agents or government grants) and intellectual property rights might be stolen by other firms are also prevalent in diversified BIs, as McAdam and Marlow (2007) have recently shown.”
A control group study of incubators’ impact to promote firm survival (2010, background): “Obtaining the benefits of an image associated with an incubator location and acquiring credibility is another important mechanism of incubation (Ferguson and Olofsson 2004; McAdam and Marlow 2007; McAdam and McAdam 2008).”
Beyond incubation: an analysis of firm survival and exit dynamics in the post-graduation period (2009, background): “Accordingly, one of the primary objectives of business incubators (BIs) is the promotion of survivability and the positive development of their tenant companies (Hannon 2005; McAdam and Marlow 2007 ).”