These are organizations that offer entrepreneurs a variety of resources, including mentoring, financing advice, technological training, business space, and research facilities
Centers that help new ventures by providing office space, basic business services, and a variety of management resources
(p 175) Centers that offer new businesses low-cost offices with basic business services
Incubators encourage entrepreneurship and minimize obstacles to new business formation and growth, particularly for high technology firms, by housing in one facility a number of fledging enterprises which share an array of services These shared services may include: meeting areas, secretarial services, accounting, research library, on-site professional and management counseling, and computer word processing facilities
An incubator is a device which maintains controlled environmental conditions, especially used for providing warmth and dryness Some incubators are specifically designed for cultivating cell cultures and bacteria in Petri dishes Others are designed for hatching eggs or for protecting animal or human infants
A company or facility designed to foster entrepreneurship and help startup companies, usually technology-related, to grow through the use of shared resources and intellectual capital
Often funded by local government, an incubator is a program dedicated to fostering small businesses in a growing industry by providing them with guidance, services, and resources
An incubator is a piece of hospital equipment which helps weak or small babies to survive. It consists of a transparent container in which the oxygen and temperature levels can be controlled
An entity designed to nurture business concepts or new technologies to the point that they become attractive to venture capitalists An incubator typically provides both physical space and some or all of the services legal, managerial, technical needed for a business concept to be developed Incubators often are backed by venture firms, which use them to generate early-stage investment opportunities
A facility designed to encourage entrepreneurship and minimize obstacles to new business formation and growth, particularly for high technology firms, by housing a number of fledgling enterprises that share an array of services These shared services may
{i} apparatus which keeps eggs warm until they hatch; temperature-controlled apparatus in which sick or premature infants are kept; device in which bacteria are cultivated
A machine used to hatch eggs by emulating the mother bird The eggs are kept warm, turned each day and even allowed to cool very slightly to simulate the mother bird getting up to feed