Corporate Incubators: Industrial R&D and What Universities can learn from them
Journal
Journal of Technology Transfer
ISSN
0892-9912
ISSN-Digital
1573-7047
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2006-01-01
Author(s)
Abstract
The explosive growth of incubation has seen a concurrent and significant increase in research on and knowledge of the incubation phenomenon. However, instead of comprehensively differentiating between non-profit and for-profit incubators, research has described a whole array of partly overlapping archetypes, thus missing out on important aspects. This article first offers two arguments validating a framework of what non-profit university incubators can learn from for-profit corporate incubators before presenting the framework itself. While corporate incubators are for-profit organizations with which to enhance a corporation's technology development, university incubators try to leverage technological insights from the university in a similar manner. In accordance with their respective missions, organizational structures, incubator processes and resource flows, it is possible to transfer lessons learned from two corporate incubator archetypes-the fast-profit incubator and leveraging incubator-to the world of university incubator. Our empirical findings are based on in-depth case studies of 25 companies through 52 semi-structured interviews with managers of corporate incubators of large technology-intensive corporations in Europe and the U.S., two EU incubator benchmarking surveys and five interviews with the heads of technology transfer offices of two top technology universities.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Springer Science + Business Media
Publisher place
Norwell, Mass.
Volume
31
Number
4
Start page
469
End page
483
Pages
15
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
39345
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