Discussion: The INNOSPACE Community of Practice

Oswald Jones, PingPing Meckel () and David Taylor
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Oswald Jones: University of Liverpool
PingPing Meckel: University of Central Lancashire
David Taylor: Manchester Metropolitan University

Chapter Chapter 8 in Creating Communities of Practice, 2021, pp 173-194 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract According to Hackett and Dilts (2004), the first business incubator was established in the Batavia Industrial Centre (New York) in 1959. Initially, growth was slow and the USA had only a few dozen incubators by the 1980s; after which, there was a fairly rapid expansion with over 1000 by 2006 and 1250 by 2012 (Harper-Anderson and Lewis 2018). A recent report for NESTA indicated that in the UK there are currently 205 incubators and over 160 business accelerators (Bone et al. 2019). Interest in linkages between business incubators and universities was stimulated by Etzkowitz’s (2003) concept of the ‘entrepreneurial university’. Growth in the number of incubators also coincided with various UK policy initiatives designed to promote the role of the third mission, which encouraged universities to establish closer links with business (Clark 1998; DTI 1998, 2000; Lambert 2003). Science parks pre-dated the emergence of business incubators in the UK although there is little consensus on their effectiveness.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62962-5_8

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