Business Incubators and Small Enterprise Development in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 285-301
Author(s):  
Oyeyemi Adegbite
Keyword(s):  
Small Enterprise ◽  
Enterprise Development ◽  
Business Incubators

scholarly journals Small enterprise development in South Africa: The role of business incubators

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (26) ◽  
pp. 141-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukhove Masutha ◽  
Christian M. Rogerson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Small Enterprise ◽  
Enterprise Development ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Business Incubation ◽  
Institutional Issues ◽  
Start Up

Abstract Business incubation is a relatively new phenomenon in scholarship and policy development for small enterprise development. Business incubators offer targeted business support and technical support services to accelerate the growth of emerging and small start-up business enterprises into financially and operationally independent enterprises. South Africa has adopted business incubation as one vehicle for upgrading the SMME economy. This article examines the evolution of policy towards business incubation, current progress, institutional issues and emerging geographies of business incubators as part of the unfolding and dynamic SMME policy landscape in South Africa. Considerable differences are observed between the activities of the network of state-supported incubators as opposed to private sector operated incubators.

scholarly journals Business incubator management and entrepreneur collaboration with R&D milieus: Does the regional context matter?

2021 ◽  
pp. 146575032110308
Author(s):  
Jarle Aarstad ◽  
Stig-Erik Jakobsen ◽  
Lene Foss
Keyword(s):  
Market Orientation ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Enterprise Development ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Business Incubator ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Perceptual Performance

We study whether business incubator management collaboration with R&D milieus affects incubated entrepreneurs to also collaborate with R&D milieus in different regional contexts. Empirically, we analyse 281 Norwegian entrepreneurs in 32 different business incubators. Incubator collaboration with R&D milieus increases entrepreneur collaboration with R&D milieus in sparsely but not densely populated regions. Also, education level increases collaboration with R&D milieus (plus investor milieus and international customers). Entrepreneur collaboration with R&D milieus is positively associated with market orientation and perceptual performance but tends to delay enterprise development.

Indigenous Small Enterprise Development: Implications For Policy

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-48
Author(s):  
Don Fuller ◽  
Susan Gunner ◽  
Scott Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Small Enterprise ◽  
Enterprise Development
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