Are walkable places tech incubators? Evidence from Nebraska’s ‘Silicon Prairie’

Assessing government-supported technology-based business incubators: evidence from China

This study examines the effectiveness of government-supported incubator programmes in China. Findings highlight the importance of private-sector involvement in the incubators’ governing body. Previous literature acknowledges the importance of government intervention in the entrepreneurial incubation process to overcome innovation market failure. However, factors that potentially influence the e...

Low-Tech Virtuality: Evidence from SMEs in Hong Kong

Previous research on virtuality has been dominated by discussions of virtual teams, involving either students or organisational employees, with the latter dominated by larger organisations. Little attention has been paid to the SME sector, despite the apparent benefits that could accrue to SMEs that make effective use of virtual collaboration and cooperation technologies. In this paper we repor...

Recognizing Places with Weak Evidence

In the presence of globally-unique features (RFID tags embedded in the environment, for example), closing the loop is trivial. More commonly, however, evidence of a loop closure is weak. Planar laser scanners are a typical robotic sensor, producing cross-sectional maps of environments (see Fig. 1). Unfortunately, indoor environments tend to be composed of similar-looking elements (corners, wall...

The Effect of Market Entry on Innovation: Evidence from UK University Incubators∗

This paper investigates the effect of market entry of new firms on incumbent firms’ innovative activity measured as patent applications. The basic assumption is that the effect of entry varies by geographical distance between entrants and incumbents due to the presence of localized unobserved spillovers. In order to avoid endogeneity problems commonly associated with the timing of entry and ent...

Identifying Business Incubators Based on Their Real Activities: Evidence from China