期刊名称：IWH Diskussionspapiere / Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle
出版年度：2008
卷号：2008
出版社：Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle
摘要：In Germany, a growing tendency can be observed to focus business incubators (BIs) and
technology centers and their respective support elements and processes as well as the selection
criteria applied by the incubator management on firms from solely one sector or
few but complementary sectors and their specific needs and requirements. These are
called specialized business incubators (SBIs). Despite the increasing importance of specialization
strategies of business incubators as local and regional policy instruments,
there are no reliable empirical examinations of the specifics, and advantages in particular,
of SBIs compared to more diversified BIs. On the basis of survey-data, that comprises
responses from 161 actual firms incubated in 13 diversified BIs and 13 specialized BIs
in Germany, this study investigates the mechanisms within the specific context of specialized
BIs and their value-added contribution versus the more diversified incubation
model. For the first time, this study provides large-scale empirical evidence concerning
the effects of adopting a specialization strategy in the context of business incubation.
