Business Incubator .

• Business Incubator

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Yelp, Inc. 2004: Concept and founding

1 Yelp Inc. developed out of a business incubator called MRL Ventures that was founded by Max Levchin and several former PayPal executives. Stoppleman proposed a website where users could ask friends for their recommendations

on local services via email and Levchin agreed to invest $1 million in the project. MRL co-

founder, David Galbraith, who had instigated the research into a Yellow Pages style Internet product, came up with the name "Yelp", and

the project was launched in 2004.


Arizona State University Research and Institutes

1 UBI reviewed 550 universities and associated business incubators from

around the world using an assessment framework that takes

more than 50 performance indicators into consideration


Mark Shuttleworth - Work

1 In September 2000, Shuttleworth formed HBD Venture Capital (Here be Dragons), a business incubator and venture capital

provider. In March 2004 he formed Canonical Ltd., for the promotion and commercial support of free software

projects, especially the Ubuntu operating system. In December 2009, Shuttleworth stepped down as the CEO of Canonical,

Ltd.


Entrepreneurship - Background

1 Many organizations exist to support would-be entrepreneurs including specialized government agencies,

business incubators, science parks, and some NGOs


MSN TV - Microsoft takes notice

1 In June 1999, Steve Perlman left Microsoft and started Rearden, a

business incubator for new companies in media and

entertainment technology.


Idealab

1 'Idealab' (formerly known as 'idealab!') is a business incubator based in Pasadena,

California.


Pebble Technology - Development

1 Migicovsky successfully took his idea through the Y Combinator

(company)|Y Combinator business incubator program, and unusually for a startup company at Y Combinator,

Migicovsky's business actually generated revenue during the

program


Aquafadas - Company history

1 *2006, Aquafadas was founded as a company and moved its offices to Cap Omega, a business incubator that has

received the award for best global incubator of start-ups, awarded by the

(National Business Incubation Association).[http://blog.aquafadas.com/news/2007-incubator-of-the-year-

award-winners/ NBIA]


Bill Gross (entrepreneur)

1 He founded GNP Loudspeakers (now GNP Audio Video), an audio equipment

manufacturer; GNP Development Inc., acquired by Lotus Software; Knowledge Adventure, an educational software company, later acquired

by Cendant; and the business incubator Idealab in March, 1996, of which he serves as

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. He is also credited as the creator of the Sponsored Search model of search advertising where advertisers pay when their ad is clicked.


Entrepreneur - Background

1 Many organizations exist to support would-be entrepreneurs including specialized government agencies,

business incubators, science parks, and some Non-governmental

organization|NGOs


Georgia Institute of Technology - Technology Square

1 The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) is a

science and business incubator, run by the Georgia Institute of

Technology, and is also headquartered in Technology

Square's Centergy One complex.


Portland, Oregon - Economy

1 Software-oriented startup companies, supported by seed

funding organizations and business incubators, include Clicky,

COLOURlovers, AppFog, Vizify, CPUsage, Urban Airship and many

others.


Viterbi School of Engineering - Major research centers

1 * Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering|Alfred Mann

Institute - business incubator for medical device development in

preparation for commercialization


New Jersey Institute of Technology

1 NJIT also focuses on economic development, a prime example of

which is the [http://www.njit-edc.org/ Enterprise Development Center] (EDC), an on-campus business

incubator established in 1988 that currently houses 90 start-ups


Technical University of Madrid - Research

1 The Scientific and Technological Park of the UPM (“Parque UPM”)

represents a significant boost to the University’s RDi activity through the

creation of new RDi centres, business incubators, and specialized

laboratories, with the backing and participation of public and private

institutions.


Prague - Science, research and hi-tech centres

1 It is also a seat of 10 public research institutes, four business incubators

and large hospitals performing research and development activities such as the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague or

the Motol University Hospital


Seasteading - Blueseed

1 Blueseed is a company working on launching a ship near Silicon Valley

which will serve as a visa-free Startup company|startup community

and entrepreneurial business incubator|incubator


University of Missouri - Campus

1 It includes the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center,

International Institute for Nano and Molecular Medicine, MU Life Science

Business Incubator at Monsanto Place, and Dalton Cardiovascular

Research Center


Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City - History of the campus

1 It also houses the Center for Educational Innovation, installations of the Virtual University, the Media

Center and the “New Business Incubator.”


Curitiba - Urban planning

1 Key initiatives include the South-Circular bus line, which links the southern and eastern regions of

town; Entrepreneurial Sheds, business incubators designed to help small companies get established and prosper; and the Crafts Lycée, which trains people for professions such as

marketing and finance


Recife - Information technology industry

1 Professors at the school also teamed up to launch Centro de Estudos e

Sistemas Avançados do Recife (C.E.S.A.R), a business incubator that has played a vital role in the birth of

some 30 company|companies.


University of Southampton - Science Park

1 Originally established in 1983 as Chilworth Science Park, named after the manor house that is now a luxury

hotel and conference centre, the park houses business incubator units

to help these companies


National University of Singapore - Present form

1 NEC is currently headed by Professor Wong Poh

Kamhttp://www2.straitstimes.com/Think/Story/STIStory_800832.html and

its activities are organised into 4 areas, including a business

incubator, experiential education, entrepreneurship development, and

entrepreneurship research.


University of Reading - Reading Enterprise Hub

1 Reading Enterprise Hub is a business incubator opened in 2003. The hub

was jointly sponsored by the university and South East England Development Agency|SEEDA, and sought to attract startup high tech companies, particularly those with

interests in environmental technology, information technology, life sciences, and materials science.


University of Tennessee - Agricultural Campus

1 The Ag Campus is the site of UT's Plant Biotech Building and associated facilities, the Biosystems

Engineering and Environmental Sciences facility, UT's College of Veterinary Medicine and its associated

teaching hospital of veterinary medicine, the Pendergrass Library Agricultural and Veterinary

Medicine Library, the Tennessee Division of Forestry, UT's new Business Incubator, built in conjunction with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Forestry Products and Resources facility, vast greenhouses and growth

chambers, and the administrative offices and multiple classroom halls devoted to UT's College of

Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources


Helsinki University of Technology - Campus

1 TKK was located in Otaniemi, Espoo. Several high-tech companies, the Finnish forest

industry's joint experimental laboratory KCL, and business incubators Innopoli and

Technopolis are also situated there. It is also directly adjacent to Keilaniemi, with Life Science Center and the headquarters of

several notable Finnish companies, such as Nokia and Fortum. The area is connected by

a 15-minute bus ride to the center of Helsinki.


Alfred E. Mann - Philanthropy

1 Mann Institutes for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California

(USC), known as AMI/USC ($162 million); at Purdue University known as AMI/Purdue

($100 million); and at the Technion known as

[http://www.mannfbe.org/foundations/ami-technion.htm AMIT] ($104 million) are business incubators for medical device

development in preparation for commercialization


Luxinnovation - Services

1 * Analysis of the innovative idea and the related business plan, and access

to national business incubators


Stony Brook University

1 The university owns the Stony Brook University Medical Center, co-

manages the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and in 2005 acquired land for a Stony Brook University Research and Development Park|

Research Development Park adjacent to its main campus, and has four business incubators across the

regionhttps://store.theartofservice.com/the-business-incubator-toolkit.html

Stony Brook University - East

1 The Long Island High Technology Incubator, one of the four business

incubators of the University, is located a short walk north of the

hospital


Business incubator

1 'Business incubators' are programs designed to support the

successful development of entrepreneurial companies through

an array of business support resources and services, developed

and orchestrated by incubator management and offered both in the incubator and through its network of

contactshttps://store.theartofservice.com/the-business-incubator-toolkit.html

Business incubator - The incubation process

1 In Measuring Your Business Incubator's Economic Impact: A

Toolkit


Business incubator - History

1 A study funded by the European Commission in 2002 identified

around 900 incubation environments in Western Europe.Centre for

Strategy and Evaluation Services, Benchmarking of Business Incubators



1 On November 3, 2010, New York City broke ground on its sixth business incubator and the first in the Bronx called the Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator which is a joint venture

between the New York City Economic Development Corporation and

Sunshine Suites. Manufacture New York is a Manhattan-based fashion incubator and small-run production

facility.https://store.theartofservice.com/the-business-incubator-toolkit.html


1 Incubators are going through a renaissance as of 2011. New

experiments like Virtual Business Incubators are bringing the resources of entrepreneurship hubs like Silicon Valley to remote locations all over

the world.


Business incubator - Incubator networks

1 Of 1000 incubators across Europe, 500 are situated in Germany,

successfully supporting entrepreneurship and the regional

industries. Some of them are organized federally within the ADT (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Innovations-, Technologie-, und

Gründerzentren e.V.).[http://www.adt-online.de/information_in_english.html

German association of business incubators]


World Summit on the Information Society - 2012

1 * Rural Technology and Business Incubator (India) with the project Rural Technology and Business

Incubator in category C6: Enabling environment


W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus - Harriman Business Center Incubator

1 The Harriman Business Center is a business incubator in Building 7A at the campus. The

University at Albany's Small Business Development Center has an office on-site to

provide consulting, training, and other services. The University also has its College

of Computing and Information at the incubator. Other tenants are the New School

of Radio and Television, Petrolab (a division of Ametek), Applied Visions, Inc., and Breonics

(a bio-medical research firm).


SUNY Albany - History

1 In 1996, a third campus — the East Campus — was added east of the

Uptown Campus in Rensselaer County, New York|Rensselaer County, when the University acquired former Sterling-Winthrop laboratories and

converted them into labs, classrooms, and a business incubator

concentrating on advances in biotechnology and other health-

related disciplineshttps://store.theartofservice.com/the-business-incubator-toolkit.html

SUNY Albany - East Campus

1 Also based at the campus are 15 private biotechnology companies,

both established and those which are part of the University’s business

incubator program


Cambridge - Economy

1 Cambridge and its surrounds are sometimes referred to as Silicon Fen, an allusion to Silicon Valley, because

of the density of high-tech businesses and business incubator|

technology incubators that have developed on science parks around

the city


Max Marty - Blueseed

1 The project is preparing to launch a ship near Silicon Valley to serve as a Startup company|startup community

and entrepreneurial business incubator|incubator without United

States visas|United States work visa requirements


Dario Mutabdzija - Blueseed

1 The project is preparing to launch a ship near Silicon Valley to serve as a Startup company|startup community

and entrepreneurial business incubator|incubator without United

States visas|United States work visa requirements


Ashland Community and Technical College - Academics and demographics

1 The college is also home to the Ashland Area Innovation Center, a

business accelerator that aids in the development of knowledge-based

industries in eastern Kentucky, and the Entrepreneur Center, a small business incubator that provides assistance for about two to three years to individuals or groups of

individuals who have a desire to start a business


Teknekron Corporation

1 'Teknekron Corporation' is one of the world's first technology-focused business incubators.


SilverStripe - History

1 SilverStripe was one of Creative HQ’s (a business incubator) first residents and

graduated in 2006.


Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1 The institute operates an on‑campus business incubator and the

Rensselaer Technology Park, and is known for its success in the transfer of technology from the laboratory to

the marketplace.


Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Research and development

1 RPI has the United States' first on-campus business incubator, which

has helped start over 180 companies in its lifetime, with a survival rate of

about 80%


Armadillo World Headquarters - History

1 In 1970, Austin's flagship Rock and roll|rock music music venue|venue, the Vulcan Gas Company, closed,

leaving the city's nascent live music scene without an Business incubator|

incubator


Red Gate Software - Red Gate Springboard

1 In August 2009 Red Gate announced a new project called Springboard. Springboard was a startup business incubator|incubator based

in Cambridge, UK. For a period of three months Red Gate provided living expenses and mentoring for teams to work from Red

Gate's offices. It was similar to Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator and Techstars in

that it provided a small amount of capital up front but was different in that no equity was

taken.


Venture capital in Israel

1 Israel currently has about 70 active venture capital funds, of which 14 are international

venture capital|VCs with Israeli offices.[http://www.investinisrael.gov.il/NR/exere

s/A19A138D-87A7-416B-8D62-1C968E035E13.htm Venture Capital in Israel]

Israel's venture capital and Business incubator|incubator industry plays an important role in the booming high-tech sector that has been given

the nickname Silicon Wadi, considered second in importance only to its Californian counterpart,

the Silicon Valley.


Venture capital in Israel - Technological business Incubators

1 In the early 1990s, the Israel government created a technological

business incubator program (Hebrew: טכנולוגית to leverage the (חממה

strengths of approximately 750,000 scientists, engineers, and physicians

who had just arrived from former USSR


Politecnico di Torino - Ranking

1 University's Innovative Enterprise and Business Incubator 'I3P' was recently ranked as the 4th best in

Europe and 11th overall in the world by UBI Index

[http://ubiindex.com/global-top-list-2013/ ]


Jerusalem Venture Partners - JVP Media Quarter

1 Beside the main venture capital firm, the Media Quarter houses the JVP Media Labs, a technological

early stage investment Business incubator|incubator; 10 Startup company|start-up media

companies; Zappa Jerusalem in the Lab, a music club and concert venue for some of Israel's leading singers,[http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArt

icle.aspx?id=250606 Illuminating coincidences, Jerusalem Post] and JVP Community (Bakehila), a youth empowerment program supporting up to

3,000 youngsters in 5 underprivileged Jerusalem neighborhoods.


Pace University - Other properties

1 'SCI² business incubators'


Pace University - Other properties

1 In the fall of 2004, Pace University opened two business incubators to help early-stage companies grow in New York City in Lower Manhattan

and Yonkers, New York|Yonkers


Cluster development

1 supply-chain development, market intelligence, business incubator|incubator services, attraction of

foreign direct investment, management training, joint RD

projects, marketing of the region, and setting technical standards.


Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University - MCIIE and Entrepreneurship Cell

1 * Technology Business Incubator (TBI) sponsored by National Science and

Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board, DST, New Delhi.


Science park - Examples

1 Campinas also boasts the largest number of high-tech business

incubators and industrial parks (a total of eight), such as the CIATEC I and II, Softex, TechnoPark, InCamp, Polis, TechTown, Industrial Park of

Campinas and others


Venture resources

1 Similar methods of support are called Business Incubators[http://www.forbes.com/2006/10/19/nbia-

incubator-peapod-ent-tech-cx_mc_1019incubator.html Forbes] that offer, among other things, physical space, capital, coaching, common services, and networking

connections.[http://entrepreneur.com/encyclopedia/term/82280.html Term definition: Business Incubator] The

difference in Venture Resources is that the business development operations of the venture are still

external and the Venture Resources firm handles all the project management, business development|

development, Human resources|staffing and Technical support|support necessary to launch the venture


National Institutes of Technology - Extra-curricular activities

1 Most NITs promote entrepreneurship by creating on-campus Business

incubator|incubation centers under the STEP program.[http://www.ecell-nitt.org/portal/ecell/ ECELL #124; E-

Cell , NIT Trichy][http://ecell.vnit.ac.in/ E-cell

VNIT]


Pulse (Application) - History

1 The company they formed, Alphonso Labs, was one of the first to use

Stanford's business incubator StartX|SSE Labs.


Kent, Ohio - Economy

1 Through the Kent Regional Business Alliance, the city also supports two business

incubators.


University of North Carolina at Charlotte - E.K. Fretwell

1 He oversaw the creation of the Graduate School, created more

graduate degrees, integrated the library's card catalog into the

Internet in 1983, created the ground work for a major business incubator,

helped to develop the university's surrounding neighborhood, and

increased academic grants to over $6.1million


Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area - Economy

1 There are several business incubators and multiple resources available to help Central Ohio’s small business community thrive.[http://centralohioentrepreneurs.org/], Link to list of

local small business incubators at CentralOhioEntrepreneurs.org There is also a yearly Startup Weekend workshop.[http://columbus.startupweekend.org/], link to Startup Weekend website In 2011, a start up founded

by two locals gave Central Ohio its own social networking website,

Cbusr.com.[http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2012/07/04/real-life-chat-room.html Dispatch - Real-life Chat Room], Published 7/4/2012 As of 9/2012, Cbusr had attracted more than 3,000 active members ranging from entrepreneurs and creative professionals to musicians who meet online and

connect offline at events.


La Trobe University - La Trobe University Research and Development Park

1 Also on the RD park is the [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/techpark/

Technical Enterprise Centre] - a business incubator for new ventures

in Information Technology, biotechnology and the life sciences.


Private sector development - Innovation Policy

1 This may include business advisory and support services, finance and skills

development; business incubators and technology extension services, as well as value chain and cluster approaches.e.g.

[http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/

2010/06/04/000334955_20100604043754/Rendered/PDF/

548930PUB0EPI11C10Dislosed061312010.pdf World Bank (2010): Innovation policy


Coworking - Misconceptions

1 Many misconceptions abound about what coworking encompasses and

how it distinguishes itself from business accelerators, business

incubators|incubators and executive suites.DeGuzman, Genevieve

[http://www.deskmag.com/en/five-big-myths-about-coworking-169// Five Big Myths About Coworking.]

Deskmaghttps://store.theartofservice.com/the-business-incubator-toolkit.html

Surf Air - History

1 Surf Air emerged in 2012 from MuckerLab,http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/business/airline-banks-on-a-buffet-style-business-model.html a

Los Angeles-based business incubator


Yelp - Origins (2004–2009)

1 Two former PayPal employees, Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel

Simmons, founded Yelp during their time at a business incubator, MRL

Ventures, in 2004


Excel (festival) - Non-technical associations

1 The Entrepreneurship Development Cell (E-Cell) is a fully functioning

student body registered under the Technology Business Incubator of the

Government Model Engineering College, Cochin


Co-founder - Background

1 Many organizations exist to support would-be entrepreneurs, including specialized government agencies,

business incubators, science parks, and some Non-governmental

organization|NGOs.


Rey Juan Carlos University - Campus

1 * Business Incubator (Vicálvaro).


Brian Chesky - Airbnb

1 The company was business incubator|incubated at Y Combinator (company)|Y

Combinator


General Catalyst Partners

1 It has invested in companies such as Snapchat, Stripe (company)|Stripe,

Airbnb, HubSpot, Datalogix and Warby Parker. General Catalyst also helps to Business incubator|incubate

companies, examples including kayak.com|KAYAK, Naturebox,

Altiscale and Highfive.


University of Nicosia - Important Milestones

1 * Intercollege creates the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, the Center for Sustainable Development, a Business Incubator

Unit and a Unit for Distance and Work-Based Learning.


University of Nicosia - Important Milestones

1 * Finally, the Helix Business Incubator Unit was set up. The unit is funded

by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to help start innovative

businesses.


Economy of Israel - Financial sector

1 Israel's thriving venture-capital and Business incubator|business-incubator industry played an

important role in the booming high-tech

sector.[http://www.investinisrael.gov.il/NR/exeres/A19A138D-87A7-416B-8D62-1C968E035E13.htm Venture

Capital in Israel]


Ohio University - Research Centers

1 * The Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics; The Charles J.

Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities; Institute for the

Empirical Study of Language; The University's Business Incubator, The

Innovation Center; and, The Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena

Institute.


Flat-Club

1 Daniele Beccari (15-08-2011) [http://www.tnooz.com/2011/08/15/tlabs/flat-club-targets-trust-

factor-in-buzz-around-short-term-lettings/ ‘FlatClub targets trust factor in buzz around short-term lettings’] Tnooz.com

FlatClub focuses on leveraging existing social, academic and professional networks to create trust.Robin Wauters (17-05-2012)[http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/05/17/flat-club-

leverages-trust-social-networks-to-facilitate-short-term-letting-lands-funding/ ‘FlatClub leverages trust, social networks to

facilitate short-term letting; lands funding’] The Next Web (23-08-2011) [http://www.smallbusiness.co.uk/channels/start-a-

business/dont-miss/1649618/hot-property.thtml ‘Hot Property’] Smallbusiness.co.uk FlatClub is a start-up company which is

incorporated into the London Business School business incubator|incubator program.


University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - Rankings and recognition

1 In research, UAMS is well known as a leader in multiple myeloma, geriatrics, vision, and spine

treatment research and is home to the Arkansas Biosciences Institute

and the UAMS Bioventures Business Incubator


University of North Dakota - Northern campus and western campus

1 Directly adjacent to the Aerospace Complex sits the Skalicky Business

Incubator, the Ina Mae Rude Entrepreneur Center, the “REAC 1,”

which houses the University of North Dakota’s Center of Excellence in Life Sciences and Advanced Technologies (COELSAT), and a Hilton Garden Inn


Clarkson University - Campus

1 The only buildings remaining in Clarkson's service at the downtown

campus are a few administration buildings, the Army and Air Force ROTC houses, the Clarkson Hall

Center for Health Sciences (physical therapy and physician assistant

studies), and the Peyton Hall Business Incubator


Groupe DSO - DSO BSDN

1 The BSDN business unit was an Business incubator|incubator initiative whose aim was to provide start-up capital for DSO's core businesses: logistic and engineering consultancy. After wild success and rapid

expansion, it was later spun off as a separate entity in 1979. The now-

independent BSDN faced trouble in the 1990s, when company-wide computer networks and the Internet rendered its

business model obsolete.https://store.theartofservice.com/the-business-incubator-toolkit.html

Clarence Lightner - Political career

1 In his next role in public life, Lightner was appointed chairman of the Southeast Raleigh Improvement Commission from 1993 to 2001, where he created groundwork for

business development, implemented the Small Business Success Program, and created an Business incubator|

incubation program for small businesses


LPTV - Arguments for LPFM

1 ** Because LPFM is non-commercial, schools and organizations are able to promote

many community service-related projects that help better the local neighborhood.

KOCZ is licensed to the Southern Development Foundation, a civil rights

group that grants scholarships and runs a business incubator but has fallen on hard

times. The foundation treats the station as a 24-hour form of community outreach.


Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - University Centers

1 The CT also controls two business incubators and one foundation focused at technological

studies


National Council of Negro Women - National and international programs

1 Developing a small business incubator in Senegal


Aalto University - Main Campus Otaniemi

1 Otaniemi has the highest concentration of high technology in

the Nordic countries.http://www.otaniemi.fi/portal/otaniemi_technology_hub/companies/ Several high-tech companies, the

Finnish forest industry's joint experimental laboratory KCL, and business incubators Innopoli and

Technopolis are also situated nearbyhttps://store.theartofservice.com/the-business-incubator-toolkit.html

Youngstown, Ohio - Economy

1 In 2014, the Youngstown Business Incubator was ranked as the number 1 university associated

business incubator in the world by the Swedish UBII (University Business Incubator

Index).http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/09/youngstown_business_incubator.ht

mlhttp://www.wfmj.com/story/26546471/youngstown-business-incubator-ranked-number-

one-worldwidehttp://www.vindy.com/news/2014/sep/21/youngstown-business-incubator-

blazing-a-/


Youngstown, Ohio - Redevelopment

1 One of the area's more successful business ventures in recent years

has been the Youngstown Business Incubator


Portland Incubator Experiment

1 The 'Portland Incubator Experiment', often abbreviated as

'PIE' or stylized as 'Pie', is a business incubator based in Portland, Oregon

that provides mentorship and resources to select Startup company|

startup companies


Portland Incubator Experiment - Program structure

1 The Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE), co-founded by Renny Gleeson

and Rick Turoczyis, is a business incubator based in Portland, Oregon that advises and provides resources

to Startup company|startup companies


Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe - 2003

1 The business incubator was founded and on October 2003, the

International Entrepreneurs Congress was hold 600 people.


Pedro Nunes - Honours

1 *The Instituto Pedro Nunes in Coimbra, a business incubator and a center of innovation and technology transfer founded by the University of

Coimbra, is named after Pedro Nunes.


Assessment Fund

1 'Assessment Fund' (Af) is an investment company that invests in,

and Business incubator|incubate technologies that are geared towards

solving tomorrow’s challenges of Workforce development|evidence-

based workforce development


Tony Hsieh - Career

1 After LinkExchange sold to Microsoft, Hsieh co-founded Venture Frogs, an Business incubator|incubator and investment firm, with his business

partner, Alfred Lin


Llanelli - Economy

1 The area around Llanelli in eastern Carmarthenshire is home to a number of manufacturing companies (including the Tata Steel Europe tinplate works at Trostre Steelworks|

Trostre, and Dyfed Steels), many of which service the automotive

industry.[http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/jcp/stellent/groups/jcp/documents/websitecontent/dev_012099.doc

DISTRICT SPECIFICATION AND LOCAL INFORMATION FOR SOUTH WEST WALES] The Technium Performance

Engineering Centre was developed at Llanelli Gate as a business incubator for businesses in the automotive,

motorsport and aerospace sectors.[http://www.technium.co.uk/server.php?

show=nav.8343 Technium Performance Engineering]


Paul Matthyssens - Publications

1 * Aerts, Kris, Paul Matthyssens, and Koen Vandenbempt.

[https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/122694/1/0560.pdf Critical

role and screening practices of European business incubators].

Technovation 27.5 (2007): 254-267.


MercyCorps - Mercy Corps Northwest

1 Mercy Corps Northwest acts as a small business incubator and mentors new business owners

through the start-up phase


Incubator

1 * Business incubator, for startup businesses


Jeremy Stoppelman - Career

1 Stoppleman left PayPal, after it was acquired by eBay in 2003 and

attended Harvard Business School for one year. During Stoppleman's

school break Levchin persuaded Stoppelman to do an internship at

the business incubator, MRL ventures.


Serge Guinchard - Other responsibilities

1 Member of Board of High School Lycée du Parc in Lyons; association

management Halle Tony Garnier; the Association of Festivals, the

association's convention center, the association of business incubators.


Paul Allen - Financial and technology

1 * 'Interval Research Corporation:' In 1992, Allen and David Liddle co-founded Interval

Research Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based laboratory and new business incubator that was dissolved in 2000 after generating over 300 patents, four of which were the subject of Allen's August 2010 patent infringement lawsuit against AOL, Apple Inc.|Apple, eBay,

Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples Inc.|Staples, Yahoo!, and

YouTube.


Workspace - Business development

1 A continuum of sophistication ranges through categories such as 'managed

workspaces', 'business incubators' and 'business and employment co-

operatives'


Where.com - Start Tank

1 The Start Tank is a business incubator hosted by PayPal, which offers free co-working space for

early-stage startups. It was founded in Boston and has expanded to London and Chennai. With 20 startups, representing over 80

people, Start Tank Boston is unique in its size—one of the largest facilities

in Massachusetts that has been dedicated to startups by a corporate

entity.


Where.com - Start Tank

1 There are several similar efforts at eBay including Friends of eBay in

New York and PayPal Startup Blueprint, and PayPal incubator in

Chennai. These are part of a broader growing trend of business incubators and seed accelerators sponsored by corporate entities and technology

companies.


Ariège - Economy

1 The Ariège Chamber of Commerce and Industry is situated at Foix. The

department’s Economic Development Agency (ARIEGE

EXPANSION) is at Verniolle.[http://www.ariege-

expansion.com Ariege Expansion] The department has established

three ‘business incubators’ to support enterprise in Ariège.


Empa - History

1 In 2008, Empa opens a new business incubator, glaTec, in Dübendorf to support

the founding of innovative start-ups and spin-offs in close proximity to Empa. glaTec is the counterpart to tebo in St. Gallen, which has

been in operation since 1996. Empa also intensifies its activities in photovoltaics.

Moreover, a closer cooperation with Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) is agreed upon, resulting in the 2010 opening

of a NIMS office at Empa.


Gulf Oil - Demise

1 These losses were mitigated some with the donation of Gulf Labs in suburban north Pittsburgh to the

University of Pittsburgh to be used as a research business incubator along with $5 million ($ million today) in

maintenance and seed money


Elektromotive - History

1 The company is based at Sussex University at the Sussex Innovation

centre, which acts as a business incubator for start up companies.


Coimbra - Economy

1 The Instituto Pedro Nunes (Pedro Nunes Institute), a business

incubator, dynamically hosts several startup company|start-ups which are

usually dedicated to technology-related businesses and became

independent Research spin-off|spin-off companies headquartered across

the whole region


São José dos Campos - Service industry

1 Two technological parks and five (one in project) business incubators have been created within universities or

industrial facilities.


Teesside University - History

1 Today, historic structures such as the old High School (the Waterhouse

building), the Constantine building and Victoria Building of 1891 (a schoolyard-equipped Victorian

architecture|Victorian school, housing a series of graduate business

incubator units), are all Grade II listed buildings.


Brevard County, Florida - Competitiveness

1 The Technological Research and Development Authority, based on the Space Coast, delivers technologies to schools and small businesses throughout the state of

Florida. They obtain this information through strategic alliances with NASA, the

federal government, the aerospace industry and state partners. They also sponsor a

business incubator at the Melbourne International Airport|Melbourne Airport.


York College of Pennsylvania - North Campus

1 Brown Center is the business incubator, which gives small

businesses resources such as office space, and access to York College's

wealth of intellectual resources


Allentown, Pennsylvania - 20th century to present

1 On the other hand, the Allentown Economic Development (AEDC)

operates a business incubator, the Bridgeworks, which helps attract and

support young commercial and manufacturing businesses.


Moniker Guitars - History

1 Original funding of $25,000 was provided by IDEA, the business

incubator at Northeastern University, and in 2013, a Kickstarter campaign

was used to raise an additional $60,000 from 155 backers.


Cebu IT Park - General Operations

1 In 2007, IBM partnered with the Philippines Department of Science and Technology on the Philippine

Intellectual Property Policy Strategy, Engineering Research Development

for Technology Program, and the National Technology Business

Incubators Program


Coimbra iParque - History and mission

1 Within Portugal, the Coimbra region has great business incubator|

incubation initiatives that serve both companies and ideas, excellent RD

groups and centres


Binghamton, New York - Economy

1 Binghamton University contains a New York State Center of Excellence for small-scale systems integration,

and has also provided the major impetus behind the $22 million Southern Tier High Technology

Business incubator|Incubator, which is being built in downtown

Binghamton to encourage local growth of startup company|startups


Binghamton, New York - Higher education

1 There has also been a recent push for student housing downtown, intended to be a major driver in the revitalization of the business

district.[http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20120630/NEWS01/110020059 Downtown

Binghamton student housing projects slated to open this summer] In addition to its

downtown campus, the university is also leading the development and construction of the $22 million Southern Tier High Technology

Business incubator|Incubator in the city.


State University of New York at Stony Brook

1 The university owns the Stony Brook University Medical Center, co-

manages the Brookhaven National Laboratory, in 2005 acquired land for

a Stony Brook University Research and Development Park|Research Development Park adjacent to its

main campus, and has four business incubators across the region


Brunswick, Victoria - Facilities and services

1 While several of Brunswick's schools were sold-off by the Jeff Kennett|

Kennett Government in the 1990s for private housing, the former

Brunswick Secondary College building on Victoria Street was saved

and has found a new use as the Brunswick Business Incubator, run by

the economic development unit of Moreland Council.


College town - Description

1 The economy of the city is closely related with the university activity and highly supported by the entire

university structure, which may include university hospitals and clinics, printing houses, libraries, laboratories, business incubators,

student rooms, dining halls, students' unions, student societies, and

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Begbroke Science Park - Commercial Activities

1 Begbroke Science Park has over 30 different high tech spin out and start-

up companies. On site labs and offices in a variety of different properties ranging from a new

purpose built business incubator (The CIE) to small or large facilities in new or period buildings. There is currently a waiting list of companies wishing to

be located on the site.https://store.theartofservice.com/the-business-incubator-toolkit.html

Trends in library usage - Public libraries

1 In partnership with the University of Arizona, the Burton Barr Central

Library in Phoenix, AZ is now offering a co-working space and business

incubator


St John's Innovation Centre

1 'St John's Innovation Centre' (SJIC) is a business incubator in Cambridge,

England. It houses a concentration of science and technology related

businesses.


St John's Innovation Centre - History

1 It is the oldest such business incubator in the

United Kingdom.


Florida Atlantic University - Research

1 The Research Park operates the Technology Business Incubator; The

incubator works to foster the start-up and growth of technology-based

businesses, seeking to scale them and build relationships for them with

the university.


SendGrid

1 management service. The company was founded by Isaac Saldana, Jose Lopez, and Tim Jenkins in 2009, and

incubated through the TechStars Business incubator|accelerator

program.


Nolan Bushnell - Catalyst Technologies Venture Capital Group

1 Bushnell founded the Catalyst Technologies, one of the earliest

business incubators. The Catalyst Group companies included Androbot,

Etak (automotive navigation systems)|Etak, Cumma, and Axlon.


Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne - Campus

1 The Research-Incubator Campus, bounded by St. Joe Road to the west, Stellhorn Road to the south, Dean Drive to the north, and

Sirlin Drive to the east includes the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center, a

business incubator for entrepreneurs. This area of the campus was acquired in 2007 after the Fort Wayne State Developmental

Center's closure, with the land donated between IPFW and Ivy Tech Community

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Robert B. Shapiro

1 Shapiro was a co-founder of Sandbox Industries, a Chicago-based business incubator and venture fund manager in 2003, and currently serves as one

of its managing directors. [http://sandboxindustries.com/Team/

RobertShapiro?spon= Robert Shapiro, Biography], Sandbox

Industries


Haliburton County - Arts and culture

1 Haliburton is also home to the Creative Business Incubator. The incubator provides entrepreneurs with a flexible, affordable space; ready access to business support

assistance and coaching, broadband service and an environment

conducive to entrepreneurial growth. The incubator is a project of the Haliburton County Development

Corporation.https://store.theartofservice.com/the-business-incubator-toolkit.html

Economy of metropolitan Detroit - Information technology

1 The metro area is home to high tech business incubators such as the Michigan

Security Network, a consortium which coordinates business growth of

cybersecurity, biodefense, and border security sectors.Zemke, Jon (September 10, 2009).[http://www.metromodemedia.com/innovationnews/michigansecuritynetwork0132.aspx Defense firms coordinate attack with

Michigan Security Network].Metromode


Integrated DNA Technologies

1 in 1987 through a partnership with Baxter Healthcare Corporation at the

University of Iowa Technology Innovation Center business incubator


Dublin Institute of Technology - Research

1 Recently research supported by Science Foundation Ireland in the

Dublin Energy Lab, water sciences, air quality, food preservation and

environmental health and safety are being co-located in a major new

building at the Grangegorman new city centre campus together with an

additional Hothouse start-up business incubator for new DIT spin-

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Economy of Greater Oslo - Energy

1 Located in the heart of the Gaustadbekk Valley, the Oslo

Innovation Center is the leading business incubator in the region


Economy of Greater Oslo - Research

1 The regional innovation support system is made up of 23 different actors, including

technology transfer offices, science parks, business incubators, venture capitalists and

a range of other companies and programmes providing support and

assistance in the process of commercialising research based ideas and

helping entrepreneurs developing their businesses into the international market

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Poissy - Le Technoparc

1 Two business incubator, a heliport, the Chamber of Commerce of

Yvelines-Val d'Oise, two hotels, a sports centre and a municipal

technical centre are also located there.


University at Albany - East Campus

1 Also based at the campus are 15 private biotechnology companies, both established and those which

form part of the University’s business incubator program


University of Coimbra - Business incubator and science park

1 The Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN), founded by the University of Coimbra, is a business incubator

and an innovation and technology transfer center of the university, working for the

business and applied research communities. The Coimbra iParque is a science park which has among its several founders and associates the

University of Coimbra. Notable startup company|startup companies born from the

University of Coimbra include ISA (company)|ISA, Critical Software, Crioestaminal, Ciberbit

and Feedzai .


Economy of Virginia - Technology

1 The state's biotechnology industry is not centralized, but growing,

highlighted by the building of the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park biotech Business incubator|incubator in Richmond and the opening of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's

Janelia Farm Research Campus|Janelia Farm in Northern Virginia.


Ira Magaziner - Business consulting

1 Joseph Garrahy, he devised a state economic plan, known as the

Greenhouse Compact, which, upon approval by the voters, aimed to

resolve several key economic issues in the state, to create several

business incubators, and to stimulate state exports


Burlington County College - Small Business Incubator

1 Located near the Briggs Road entrance, the High Technology Small

Business Incubator helps start-up high-tech firms thrive by providing labs and other physical resources needed for growth. It houses more

than 20 tenant companies.


Burlington County College - Science Incubator

1 Located adjacent to the Small Business Incubator, the Science Incubator offers early-stage bio-

technology, chemistry and pharmaceutical companies a way to

afford modern laboratory and production facilities that can be

customized to fit specific research needs.


Burlington County College - History

1 *'1998' - BCC's innovative High Technology Small Business Incubator opens on the Mt. Laurel Campus to

encourage the growth of entrepreneurial businesses.


Oakland University - Academics

1 Furthermore, OU's Smart Zone Business Incubator

([http://www.oakland.edu/ouinc/ OU INC]) provides entrepreneurial

resources and expertise to support and foster new technology-based and

life science businesses.


Cleary University - Welcome Center

1 On March 8, 2010, Cleary held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate

the official opening of its newest addition to the Livingston campus. Renovated in early 2010 the Cleary

Welcome Center is home of the university’s admissions department, as well a few other administration

offices; the focus of the new facility is the Cleary University Micro-

Business Incubator (CMBI). The CMBI provides guidance and low-cost

assistance to the small and start-up enterprise to foster entrepreneurship.


Brock University - Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex (CFHBRC)

1 The facility houses the BioLinc business incubator to forge

partnerships between research and industry, and give rise to an

economic cluster in advanced health studies and biomanufacturing in the

Regional Municipality of Niagara|Niagara Region. The complex is also home to the Niagara Campus of the

McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences|Michael G. DeGroote School of

Medicine.


Baltimore Development Corporation - Emerging Technologies Center

1 The Emerging Technologies Center (ETC) is business incubator intended to support growing technology and biotechnology companies. The ETC has facilities in Canton, Baltimore|

Canton and at Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins Eastern. Its

President and Executive Director since April 2012 is Deborah A. Tillett.


Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Hyderabad - Startup culture

1 The institute has also created a body called Technology Business Incubator

(TBI) for helping student run companies start up properly


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