Boosting new venture projects through incubator development programme

Abstract

This article adopts a resource-based view to help understand why some of the incubators are more successful than others in supporting the development of new science and technology-based firms (NSTBFs). We provide this evidence using an original longitudinal data set collected from a decade-old public incubator programme funded after the passage of the 1999 French law on innovation and research.

Keywords:

• incubator
• new venture
• performance
• resources

JEL Classification:

• A10
• B23
• H11

Acknowledgement

The authors are thankful to Zied Guedri, EM Lyon Business School, for his technical assistance, especially in the statistical analysis.

Notes

¹ DIANE Database contains comprehensive information on companies in France. It covers: company accounts, ratios, activities, scanned annual reports, descriptive information, ownership and management for over 1.3 million companies in France.