The business incubator, an activator of creative entrepreneurship?

La pépinière, dispositif activateur de l’entrepreneuriat créatif ?

Gaëlle Dechamp () and Isabelle Horvath ()
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Gaëlle Dechamp: COACTIS - COnception de l'ACTIon en Situation - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne
Isabelle Horvath: CREGO - Centre de Recherche en Gestion des Organisations (EA 7317) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UB - Université de Bourgogne - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] - UFC - Université de Franche-Comté - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE], MSH Dijon (MSHD) - Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Dijon - UB - Université de Bourgogne - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This article examines the role of the business incubator as an activator of creative entrepreneurship. This leads us to mobilize two theoretical frameworks: the business incubator as a specific form of entrepreneurial support on the one hand, and the proximity theory on the other hand. Using the results of twenty-one interviews conducted with creative young entrepreneurs, we have been able to describe the process of developing creative entrepreneurship as an evolutionary trajectory facilitated by a number of "ingredients." We note in particular: the characteristic of the business incubator, namely creative; a structure allowing physical and relational proximity; the freedom of the young entrepreneurs to form modular teams according to projects; co-learning through inter-skills dialogue; and the emergence of an "intrapreneurial management."

Keywords: creative entrepreneurship; Proximities; Business incubators; Support for young companies; Co-learning; Entrepreneuriat créatif; Proximités; Pépinière; Accompagnement; Co-apprentissage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2018, 17 (1), pp.107-137. ⟨10.3917/entre.171.0107⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/entre.171.0107

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