What are pre-acceleration programs?

Nitzan Merguei and Carla Costa

Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2022, vol. 18, issue C

Abstract: In recent years, a new phenomenon emerged in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the pre-acceleration program. Departing from the literature on the entrepreneurship support ecosystem, we define, describe, and compare the main characteristics of these programs. We define pre-accelerators as early-stage entrepreneurship support organizations which are highly structured and with strong educational content, of short duration (generally less than three months), and aim to support aspiring entrepreneurs in speeding the process of venture concept emergence through fast-paced interactions and problem-solution validation. Participants start with (or without) scattered ideas that change and evolve during the program. Most often they can enter individually, and teams are formed from interactions within the cohort.

Keywords: Pre-acceleration; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship support organizations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 O39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352673422000221
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jobuve:v:18:y:2022:i:c:s2352673422000221

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2022.e00324

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Business Venturing Insights is currently edited by Dimo Dimov

More articles in Journal of Business Venturing Insights from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().