Are Incubators Good for Business? Understanding Incubation Practice—The Challenges for Policy

By Paul D. Hannon, P. Chaplin. 2003

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Service-based differentiation strategies for business incubators: Exploring external and internal alignment (2012, background): “…‘‘the professional preferences or competences of incubator managers’’ determine the incubator’s scope (Von Zedtwitz, 2003, p. 181), because senior incubator managers offer key personal contacts, networks, and experiences that he or she can leverage through the incubator (Hannon and Chaplin, 2003).”
A control group study of incubators’ impact to promote firm survival (2010, background): “The business incubation industry is heterogeneous (Hannon and Chaplin, 2003) and incubators are idiosyncratic regarding, for example, their client needs and their regional context and underlying objectives (5).”
Building Futures or Stealing Secrets? (2007, background): “This enables the development of appropriate business skills and so enables the realization of commercial potential (Hannon and Chaplin, 2003).”