The evolution of Business incubators: Comparing demand and supply of business incubation services across different incubator generations

Technovation

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 110-121

  Bruneel, Johan ^a,b   Ratinho, Tiago ^c   Clarysse, Bart ^a,b   Groen, Aard ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business incubation; Business support; Entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS INCUBATORS; BUSINESS SUPPORT; DEMAND AND SUPPLY; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; POLICY MAKERS; SELECTION CRITERIA; SERVICE PORTFOLIO; SERVICE PROVISIONS; SUPPORT SERVICES; VALUE PROPOSITION;

INNOVATION;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 84855883492     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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