BUSINESS incubators are environments designed specifically to help start-up enterprises with plans for high growth.
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National
Business Incubators Association (NBIA) upon which NBIA provides Bader for
Business Incubators with necessary information, business techniques,.
There are about 1,000
business incubators in North America, up from only 12 in 1980, according to the National Business Incubation Association (www.
Business incubators provide precisely this type of assistance.
Business incubators as a technological infrastructure for supporting small innovative firms' activities.
Most other certified
business incubators are for service and light manufacturing industries, or businesses conducting research and development activities.
These, and hundreds of successful products and companies--the Google and Lycos search engines, the cancer-busting drug Taxol, and the Internet grocer Peapod, to name but a few--began life in university-affiliated
business incubators.
In the race to capture the high-tech office market, some brokerage firms are reaching out to
business incubators, where start-up companies conduct business in the early stages of development.
The purpose of this paper is to describe four strategic approaches that may be particularly useful for entrepreneurs with disabilities to access the new economic infrastructure: (a) educational technical assistance, (b) small
business incubators, (c) financing options and opportunities, and (d) international competition.
The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/NEP) board approved total investments of $660,195 with two early stage technology companies, two established manufacturers, and eight
business incubators.
The goal of
business incubators is to increase the chance that a start-up will succeed; to achieve growth; shorten the time and reduce the cost of establishing and growing the business.
