Meeting, mating, and intermediating: How incubators can overcome weak network problems in entrepreneurial ecosystems

FJ van Rijnsoever - Research policy, 2020 - Elsevier
To promote economic growth and overcome societal challenges, policy-makers often try to
shape an entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) that will facilitate technological entrepreneurship …

[HTML][HTML] Business incubation and the network resources of start-ups

IB Pettersen, J Aarstad, ØS Høvig… - Journal of Innovation and …, 2015 - Springer
The focus in this paper is to study whether business incubation can provide entrepreneurial
start-ups with critical network resources. We make a distinction between incubator-provided …

[HTML][HTML] Network brokers or hit makers? Analyzing the influence of incubation on start-up investments

FJ Van Rijnsoever, MA Van Weele… - … and Management Journal, 2017 - Springer
Incubators are a prominent way to support technology based start-ups. Yet, it remains
unclear to what extent these incubators enhance start-up performance, nor is it known …

The role of innovation ecosystems and social capital in startup survival

C Bandera, E Thomas - IEEE Transactions on Engineering …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Innovation ecosystems, including technology parks and incubators, endeavor to achieve a
high density of startups that is rich in social capital to help tenants evolve. Given the …

The role of open innovation in developing an entrepreneurial support ecosystem

A Pustovrh, K Rangus, M Drnovšek - Technological forecasting and social …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, we use the open innovation paradigm to analyze the development of an
entrepreneurial support ecosystem. We argue that business accelerators play a critical role …

Business incubators and the networks of technology-based firms

DP Soetanto, SL Jack - The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2013 - Springer
This paper looks to broaden understanding about the networks of firms located in Business
Incubators (BIs). To achieve this objective, a framework for understanding the networks of …

[HTML][HTML] Key factors affecting a technology entrepreneur's choice of incubator or accelerator

DA Isabelle - Technology innovation management review, 2013 - timreview.ca
Technology entrepreneurship rarely succeeds in isolation; increasingly, it occurs in
interconnected networks of business partners and other organizations. For entrepreneurs …

[HTML][HTML] OR for entrepreneurial ecosystems: A problem-oriented review and agenda

EG Carayannis, E Grigoroudis, B Wurth - European Journal of Operational …, 2022 - Elsevier
Innovation-driven entrepreneurship has become a focus for economic development and
received increasing attention from policy makers and academics over the last decades …

Governance in entrepreneurial ecosystems: venture capitalists vs. technology parks

D Cumming, JC Werth, Y Zhang - Small Business Economics, 2019 - Springer
We argue two alternative routes that lead entrepreneurial start-ups to acquisition outcomes
instead of liquidation. On one hand, acquisitions can come about through the control route …

Toward a process theory of entrepreneurial ecosystems

B Spigel, R Harrison - Strategic entrepreneurship journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Research Summary: Entrepreneurial ecosystems have recently emerged as a popular
concept within entrepreneurship policy and practitioner communities. Specifically, they are …