business incubators

• Business incubators

• Business Incubators: Leveraging Skill Utilization Through Social Capital

This study examines the role that social capital among tenant companies of a business incubator plays in the acquisition and utilization of business skills by those companies. Social capital is a resource derived from the structure and content of social relations among individuals or groups. Questionnaire data were gathered from 53 managers (primarily owners) of tenant companies in five incubators established by the State Privatization Office of the Turkish Republic. As hypothesized, relational social capital and cognitive social capital each had a significant unique and positive relationship with skill utilization. Contrary to a hypothesis, structural social capital did not have a significant unique relationship with skill utilization. These results indicate that incubator tenant compa...

• Journal of Small Business Strategy
• Vol. 20 Nbr. 1, April 2009

• Business Incubators

As the phrase itself implies, business incubators are programs intended to help small businesses get off the ground. They almost always provid...

• Encyclopedia of Small Business
• A-I

• Business Incubators' Nature Is to Nurture

Nick Pinkston Profile Title: President and co-founder of CloudFab.com

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• February 27, 2011

• A New Era for Business Incubators

[Low Cooperhouse]: New Jersey has 10 incubators that together have 12 incubator locations because the New Jersey Institute of Technology technically has three incubators on-site. All of the incubators in the state have received funding from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. Together, as active tenants, we're supporting about 300 different businesses in New Jersey.

• NJBIZ
• July 27, 2009

• Journal Sentinel Watchdog Report: Update Matc Takes Tougher Line On Business Incubators but Time Limits, Accountability and Debt Are Nagging Concerns

Milwaukee Area Technical College has cut in half the number of tenants in its two business incubators that are behind on their rent and has removed some that appeared not to be viable enterprises. The school also believes that getting tougher one day will result in the taxpayer-supported incubators breaking even financially.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• January 29, 2009

• Business Incubators in Missouri Form Association to Increase Awareness

Today's startup business could be tomorrow's industry giant. And some of those startups might now be located in business incubators scattered throughout Missouri. Business incubators in the St. Louis region have seen their share of success stories during the past decade, graduating numerous fledgling enterprises that have gone on to provide dozens if not hundreds of new jobs to area residents. Believing that business incubation is a cornerstone of economic development in the state, the heads of these facilities have come together to form an association to increase public awareness of their operations and to increase local, state and federal officials' support of incubation.

• St. Charles County Business Record
• November 19, 2005

• Matc Tenants Face Crackdown; Business Incubators Seek Overdue Rent

More than two dozen small companies that are part of a well- known Milwaukee Area Technical College program intended to create jobs failed to pay rent for six months or more, prompting the college to threaten eviction. The action is part of a get-tough policy with tenants of the school's two small-business incubators, known as the Milwaukee Enterprise Centers. It comes at a time when MATC is facing other challenges with the centers - particularly the north center at 4th and Locust streets.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• January 30, 2007

• Bumper Crop of Business Incubators

When Dave Baker rented a 450-sq.-ft. cubicle inside the Wausau Business Incubator in 1993, there was barely enough room for himself, a work-bench and ...

• Corporate Report Wisconsin
• Vol. 19 Nbr. 10, June 2004

• Investing in ideas: despite budget cuts and a decline in venture investing, some university business incubators continue to grow--with novel approaches.

Education funding is not the only casualty of the poor economy. Money earmarked for research and business incubation at colleges and universities is a...

• University Business
• Vol. 6 Nbr. 4, April 2003

• Progress and setbacks for Valley business incubators: Pacoima plans on track; financing stalls for biotech site.

Despite the greater San Fernando Valley area being home to a host of innovative companies, the region has yet to offer local entrepreneurs a fully fun...

• San Fernando Valley Business Journal
• July 06, 2009