Exploring business incubation practices and relationships to drivers of start-up success in Turkey

Gozem Guceri-Ucar and Stefan Koch

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 2016, vol. 20, issue 1/2, 1-19

Abstract: This article presents a qualitative study of business incubators in Turkey and their contribution to the success of technology start-ups. Through in-depth interviews, we define the concept of start-up success and identify the factors associated with effective incubation from the perspectives of incubator tenants and incubator managers. Our longitudinal field study involving 17 technology start-ups and six business incubators was conducted in order to gain an in-depth understanding of the incubation experience and tenants progress after graduation. Propositions were derived regarding start-up success and the value-added contribution of business incubators. We observed that when defining success, human capital development and employee motivation are a central focus for Turkish start-ups. We find that the timing of graduation from the incubator and the level of maturity of the start-up at the time of graduation are crucial determinants of whether the firm will be successful after it leaves the safety net of the incubator.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; business incubators; incubation; new ventures; start-up success; technology start-ups; Turkey; value-added; human capital development; employee motivation; maturity level. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=75296 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

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:ids:ijeima:v:20:y:2016:i:1/2:p:1-19

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().