Do different types of incubators produce different types of innovations?

José Barbero (), José Casillas (), Mike Wright and Alicia Ramos Garcia ()

The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2014, vol. 39, issue 2, 168 pages

Abstract: Incubators are heterogeneous but there is a lack of understanding of the variety of innovation involved. We use four archetypes of incubator discussed in the literature (basic research, university, economic development and private incubator) and analyze their generation of different types of innovation (product, technological process and organizational innovation) during a 4 years period (2005–2008). In a sample of 80 incubators, we find that incubatees in some types of incubators are more prone to generate product and technological process innovations than those hosted in other types. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: Incubation; Types of innovation; Types of incubators; Innovation generation; M13; O31; O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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