Both reports consider academic support units for innovation in teaching and learning at the institutional level as well as those that foster collaborations across a system or network of institutions. In the previous post we discussed several ways that a network or system of institutions could collaborate on exploration, experimentation and exploitation of innovations in teaching and learning. T...

Purpose This paper examines the governance function that incubators perform for entrepreneurial firms. The authors demonstrate this has both a consultative and control dimension illustrate how these are enacted in interactions between entrepreneurs. also show come into being entrepreneurs assess value of role played by incubators. Design/methodology/approach is based on cross-sectional intervie...

As technology-based enterprises (TBEs) are more promising than non-technology firms, there is a strong case for their incubation and promotion. However, TBEs use incubators not as support providers idea but to control costs incurred develop implement ideas, thus defying the objective of incubation. Different types incubators, such commercial, social university business (UBIs), have different ta...

Business incubators ensure networking and facilitate Open Innovation (OI) collaborations both inside the incubator among entrepreneurs outside with external stakeholders. Recently, sustainability promotion of environment-friendly businesses has become an important focus for business incubators. Sustainability-oriented incubation is a relatively new emerging topic scholars BI practitioners. This...

The roles and positive impacts of business incubators, including virtual ones, in promoting entrepreneurship innovation multiple industries, their consequent contributions to fostering sustainable economic growth social development, have been highly advocated the extant literature. Nonetheless, several authors highlight urgent need further carry out research concerning these structures’ operati...