Handbook of Research on Business and Technology Incubation and Acceleration

A Global Perspective

Research Handbooks in Business and Management series

Edited by Sarfraz A. Mian, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management Policy and Chair of Management and Marketing Areas, School of Business, State University of New York, Oswego, US, Magnus Klofsten, Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Department of Management & Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden and Wadid Lamine, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada

This pioneering work explores both the theory and practice of business and technology incubation over the past six decades as an approach to new venture creation and development. With a global scope, the Handbook examines key concepts, models, and mechanisms, providing a research-based analytical foundation from which to understand the emerging role of modern incubation tools in building entrepreneurship ecosystems for promoting targeted economic development.

‘The Handbook provides a good and accessible overview on how to deliver better incubation and acceleration services, whilst debunking some myths along the way.’
– Monika Radclyffe, Centre for Entrepreneurs

‘Exceptionally well organized and presented, the Handbook of Research on Business and Technology Incubation and Acceleration is deftly organized into four major sections. Ideal as a curriculum textbook on the subject, the book is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, corporate, college and university library collections.’
– John Burroughs, Midwest Book Review

‘A comprehensive, comparative and illuminating Handbook of incubation and related entrepreneurial enhancement support structures edited and written by the leading international authorities on innovation.’
– Henry Etzkowitz, International Triple Helix Institute, US

‘This is a timely and important Handbook of the best research on property-based institutions engaged in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship. The editors, who have written seminal papers on these issues, have produced a lucid and insightful book. A “must-read” for academics and policymakers who study and manage these institutions.’
– Donald Siegel, Arizona State University, US