Business support within business incubators

Tiago Ratinho; Rainer Harms; Aart Groen

Business support within business incubators

Tiago Ratinho
, Rainer Harms
, Aart Groen

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

Business incubators (BI) have been established worldwide as tools for company creation and small businesses support. BIs claim to help their tenants by providing them with the optimal conditions for increasing early stage survival. Practitioners and researchers agree that business support is a crucial dimension of BI. Yet this feature is seldom researched. In this study we investigate to what extent business incubators support their tenants overcome their developmental problems. Results show that tenants do not experience many problems and when they do business support is not necessarily sought. Furthermore, our data suggests that business support is not preferentially sought within incubator environment. When this happens, support provided by the BI does not contribute to problem solving. Finally, we discuss the impact of the type of BI in helping their tenants.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	TitelProceedings of the 16th international Product Development Management Conference
Subtitle of host publication	"Managing dualities in the innovation journey", June 7-9, 2009, Twente
Place of Publication	Enschede
Publisher	European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management
Pages	166-167
Number of pages	18
Publication status	Published - 8 Jun 2009
Event	16th International Product Development Management Conference, IPDMC 2009: Managing Dualities in the Innovation Journey - University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands Duration: 8 Jun 2009 → 9 Jun 2009 Conference number: 16

Publication series

Name	International Product Development Management Conference
Publisher	European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management
Volume	2009
ISSN (Print)	1998-7374

Conference

Conference	16th International Product Development Management Conference, IPDMC 2009
Abbreviated title	IPDMC
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Enschede
Period	8/06/09 → 9/06/09

Keywords

Problem solving
Business support
Business incubation
Business incubators

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Ratinho, T., Harms, R., & Groen, A. (2009). Business support within business incubators. In TitelProceedings of the 16th international Product Development Management Conference: "Managing dualities in the innovation journey", June 7-9, 2009, Twente (pp. 166-167). (International Product Development Management Conference; Vol. 2009). European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management.

Ratinho, Tiago ; Harms, Rainer ; Groen, Aart. / Business support within business incubators. TitelProceedings of the 16th international Product Development Management Conference: "Managing dualities in the innovation journey", June 7-9, 2009, Twente. Enschede : European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, 2009. pp. 166-167 (International Product Development Management Conference).

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Ratinho, T, Harms, R & Groen, A 2009, Business support within business incubators. in TitelProceedings of the 16th international Product Development Management Conference: "Managing dualities in the innovation journey", June 7-9, 2009, Twente. International Product Development Management Conference, vol. 2009, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Enschede, pp. 166-167, 16th International Product Development Management Conference, IPDMC 2009, Enschede, Netherlands, 8/06/09.

Business support within business incubators. / Ratinho, Tiago; Harms, Rainer; Groen, Aart.
TitelProceedings of the 16th international Product Development Management Conference: "Managing dualities in the innovation journey", June 7-9, 2009, Twente. Enschede: European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, 2009. p. 166-167 (International Product Development Management Conference; Vol. 2009).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Ratinho T, Harms R, Groen A. Business support within business incubators. In TitelProceedings of the 16th international Product Development Management Conference: "Managing dualities in the innovation journey", June 7-9, 2009, Twente. Enschede: European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management. 2009. p. 166-167. (International Product Development Management Conference).

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