The Role of Incubators in the Entrepreneurial Process

By L. Peters, Mark P. Rice, M. Sundararajan. 2004

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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S&T Parks and business incubators in middle-sized countries: the case of greece (2007, background): “One important reason has been the expected contribution to extending entrepreneurship (Peters et al., 2004).”
Coaching the Entrepreneur: Features and Success Factors (2012, background): “The coaching services offered by incubators appear to have variable impacts on the entrepreneurial process, depending on each individual case, and the incubator managers appear to be major stakeholders in that process (Peters et al., 2004).”
Specialization as strategy for business incubators: An assessment of the Central German Multimedia Center (2008, background): “In this context, Peters et al. (2004) raise the question of how the ability of a firm to differentiate itself from competitors (i.e. building unique resources) can be achieved if each tenant firm has the same access to the valuable resources of the BI.”
Critical Role and Screening Practices of European Business Incubators (2007, background): “…the incubator to evaluate the presence of characteristics that are deemed essential to develop sound enterprises (see e.g. Merrifield, 1987; Lumpkin and Ireland, 1988; Peters et al., 2004; 1 These percentages are based on data about West-Germany, France, Finland, Italy and Portugal in the nineties.”
Beyond incubation: an analysis of firm survival and exit dynamics in the post-graduation period (2009, background): “On the other hand, where those supportive actions do not seem promising, incubation should be stopped, as is shown, for example by Peters et al. (2004) , where the authors report rent-increases for nonperforming firms as an incentive to leave the incubator facilities.”
Incubator best practice: A framework (2008, background): “Incubators may engage in network mediation, i.e. matching incubatees with other actors (Brooks, 1986; von Zedwitz, 2003), with the purpose of compensating for the incubatees’ lack of established entrepreneurial networks (Peters et al., 2004; Smilor, 1987; von Zedwitz, 2003).”
Social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems: Complementary or disjoint phenomena? (2017, background): “…such as incubators and accelerators, provide entrepreneurs with office space, mentorship, exposure to capital providers, a community of other early-stage entrepreneurs, and access to support professionals, such as legal, accounting, and technical advisers (cf. Peters et al., 2004; Isenberg, 2011).”
The Evolution of Business Incubators: Comparing demand and supply of business incubation services across different incubator generations (2012, background): “In summary, BIs are property based initiatives (Phan et al., 2005) providing their tenants with a mix of services encompassing infrastructure, business support services and networking (Bergek and Norrman, 2008; Hansen et al., 2000; Lalkaka and Bishop, 1996; Peters et al., 2004).”
Conceptualizing academic entrepreneurship ecosystems: a review, analysis and extension of the literature (2018, methodology): “Networks associated with university incubators (Cooper et al. 2012; Peters et al. 2004), science parks (Zou and Zhao 2014), alumni networking events (Levie 2014), engineering research centers (Boardman and Corley 2008) and PoCCs (Gulbranson and Audretsch 2008; Maia and Claro 2013) also play an…”
University entrepreneurship: a taxonomy of the literature (2007, background): “Moreover, scholars have identified sources of UTBI impact, including general as well as specific UTBI services (e.g., coaching and networking), and the strength of ties between member firms with UTBIs and their sponsoring universities (Mian, 1997; Peters et al., 2004; Rothaermel and Thursby, 2005a).”
Knowledge flow in Technological Business Incubators: Evidence from Australia and Israel (2015, background): “Incubators ability to provide opportunity for networking is often highlighted as one of themost important services provided bymodern incubators (e.g., Bøllingtoft, 2012; Peters et al., 2004).”
The Impact of Knowledge Resources on New Venture Performance (2009, background): “…that exist in clusters (e.g., DeCarolis and Deeds 1999; Pouder and St. John 1996) or the potential benefits of assistance through incubation (Peters, Rice, and Sundararajan 2004), which might affect the nature of the knowledge relatedness relationships and the external networking identified…”
The innovation incubator, university business incubator and technology transfer strategy: The case of Thailand (2016, unknown): “Business incubators typically provide office space, administrative support and mentoring services (Peters et al., 2004).”
Do graduated university incubator firms benefit from their relationship with university incubators? (2016, background): “…of Education and Human Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA Keywords Resource endowments Economic development Regional development Entrepreneur support organizations Business incubation University based business incubators Graduate firms JEL Classification L21 L25 L26 O33 O44”