The organisational structure of university business incubators and their impact on the success of start-ups: an international study Online publication date: Tue, 17-Jul-2007
by Christian Lendner, Michael Dowling
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (IJEIM), Vol. 7, No. 6, 2007
Abstract: In this paper, data from a global survey of University Business Incubators (UBIs) are used to examine the main goals, organisational structure and the business strategies of UBIs and their impact on the incubators' firms. This paper also provides a conceptual framework based on network theory to examine success factors for start-ups in the UBIs. Universities can organise the critical resources of human capital and specific entrepreneurial experience into a separate entity or facility to assist young entrepreneurial start-ups for success, called UBIs. In this paper, we present the results of a survey of over 300 UBIs worldwide. Of the over 130 respondents, 44% are located in the USA or Canada, 41% in Europe and 15% in the rest of the world. The data from this survey allowed us to use multiple regression analysis for empirical testing of a set of hypotheses developed from network theory.
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