Understanding a Business Incubator as a Start-Up Factory: A Value Chain Model Perspective

Eric Christian Brun ()
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Eric Christian Brun: Department of Safety, Economics and Planning, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Stavanger, N-4036 Stavanger, Norway

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), 2019, vol. 16, issue 03, 1-28

Abstract: This study proposes a value chain model for business incubation. It describes both an incubated start-up’s development of its own product and business and the incubator’s development of the start-up from entrance to exit as a “product” of the incubator. The reported research is based on qualitative content analysis of 15 start-up cases in a Norwegian business incubator. The reported research enhances our theoretical understanding of start-up development processes within an incubator and provides a framework that will be useful for incubator management to guide incubatees through their venture creation process.

Keywords: Business incubators; effectuation; business incubation process; incubation value chain; start-up factory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1142/S0219877019500251

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