Implementing Academic Business Incubators: Reflections and Best Practices of a Portuguese Case Study

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Author(s): Sandra Pinto (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal), Elis Shaida Raichande Mussa Ossmane (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal)and Luísa Cagica Carvalho (Instituto Politécnico de Setúba, Portugal & CEFAGE, Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 22
Source title: Handbook of Research on Approaches to Alternative Entrepreneurship Opportunities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): José Guilherme Leitão Dantas (CARME, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal)and Luísa Cagica Carvalho (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal & CEFAGE, University of Évora, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1981-3.ch004

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Entrepreneurship / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

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Academic business incubators (ABI) are an important tool to support entrepreneurship awareness among higher education institutions communities, as well as to promote new and high-value companies' creation by fostering regional competitiveness. The present chapter aims to explore a Portuguese ABI implementation and development process, attending identified success critical factors on previews literature and analyzing the incubator processes and some incubatees' statements. In addition, and in line with a no “fit all” incubation practices, it draws some possible strategies that can be followed by other institutions with similar implementations and presents some results linked to the way dissemination is made and support is provided.

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