 The potential for kitchen incubators to assist food-processing enterprisesBenjamin Dent International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2008, vol. 6, issue 3, 496-512 Abstract: Kitchen incubators offer food microenterprises a fully equipped food-processing facility to rent on a part-time basis, along with business and technical advice. This significantly reduces the capital costs and risks of starting a food business. This project found that substantial capital and some operating subsidies were required to fund these incubators, while only about half their clients had aspirations for their enterprises to grow. Nonetheless, incubators fostered flexible entrepreneurial jobs in both urban and rural areas. To maximise outcomes, they should incorporate collaborative distribution. Co-location with colleges provided both access to expertise and specialist equipment, and opportunities for the facilities to be used for educational, professional and community culinary training. Given potential clients' unwillingness to travel, in rural areas an alternative approach would be to broker access to existing but underutilised facilities, supplemented by advisory services. Keywords: business incubators; food microenterprises; kitchen incubators; local food; food processing; entrepreneurship; collaborative distribution; rural entrepreneurship. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:6:y:2008:i:3:p:496-512 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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