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En alltmer föränderlig värld ställer höga krav på entreprenörskap i form av nya och växande företag för att möta morgondagens utmaningar. För att få kunskap om vad som krävs av en affärsrådgivaren i en inkubator för att bli framgångsrik intervjuades nio affärsrådgivare i tre olika inkubatorer med syftet att kunna bidra till ökad förståelse hur rollen kan behöva utvecklas framöver. Även en VD för en inkubator intervjuades för att förstå den framtida strategiska inriktningen på rollen. Analysen av rollen genomfördes med hjälp av Mintzbergs ledarmodell. Studien visar att affärsrådgivaren har en informell ledarroll där den behöver skapa en tillitsfull relation med entreprenören för att kunna åstadkomma ett resultat, där studien resulterade i en modell för hur man skapar tillit. Ett tranformativt ledarskap med ett coachande förhållningssätt bidrar också till att öka tilliten mellan parterna. Affärsrådgivaren och entreprenören gör en kunskapsresa tillsammans som bidrar till utveckling av både entreprenör och affärsidé. Om affärsidén får genomslag på marknaden skapas nya innovationer. Framtida forskning skulle kunna undersöka hur kommersialiseringsprocessen i inkubatorn även skulle kunna nyttjas i andra delar av samhället. / An increasing changing world puts higher demands on entrepreneurship in the form of newly started and growing companies to meet tomorrow´s challenges. To get knowledge of what is required of a business adviser in an incubator in order to be successful nine business advisers from three different incubators were interviewed with the objective to increase the understanding of how the role could develop in the future. Also, one Managing Director of an incubator was interviewed to understand the future strategic direction of the role. An analysis of the role was conducted with the help of Mintzberg´s leadership model. The study shows that the business adviser has an informal leadership role in which he/she need to establish a trustful relationship with the entrepreneur to be able to achieve a result, where the study resulted in a model on how trust is formed. A transformative leadership with a coaching approach also contributes to establish a trustful relationship between the parties. The business adviser and the entrepreneur make a knowledge journey together that contributes to development of both the entrepreneur and the business idea. If the business idea comes true an innovation is created. Future research could investigate how the commercialisation process in an incubator could be utilised also in other parts of society.

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Incubators in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are known to produce high Sound Pressure Levels (SPL) that can have detrimental effects on infants. Currently measured SPL in NICU's using traditional incubators are above the recommended 45 dB[A] threshold value [1]. Due to operating equipment and environmental noise, the sound level that is perceived by the developing newborn can cause both short and long term hearing loss as well as psychological damage [1].This thesis presents a study on how passive noise control devices can be used to reduce SPL levels in incubator NICU environments. A combination of experimental testing coupled with Finite Element simulations were performed for a modern incubator. In the experimental portion, porous mattresses were analyzed to reduce SPL values. These same test scenarios were modeled using the FE software. Using this model, extensive studies were performed on an arrangement of porous mattress materials with simple foam shapes to determine sound absorbing characteristics of several designs. Data was collected and studied at a NICU at Children\'s Hospital in Norfolk, Va. Experimental work showed improvement in reducing SPL with multiple thicknesses for different sound absorbing mattresses. The experimental outcomes validated the FE simulation model by showing similar trends at the baby\'s ears. In simulation work, polyimide foam had the best low frequency performance while polyurethane had the greatest performance in middle and high frequencies. Designs that used full-width foam treatments across the incubator produced the overall greatest reduction in noise around the baby control volume by approximately 26%. / Master of Science

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-01T19:18:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Danilo.pdf: 1730178 bytes, checksum: 9368a8c4699b8c6bcbcfdfb44da27ec0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-02-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The Virtual Incubator (VI) is one of the newest types of business incubator. They render a great variety of services electronically, by the Internet. The concept of Virtual Organization (VO) is recent and it was introduced by Mowshowitz (1986), as a new organizational model, being composed by a net relatively stable of independent companies, that aim at to participate in business cooperations. The theme "Virtual Organizations" wins relevance as it is researched inside as a strategic alternative to increase the competitiveness and the earnings of a cooperation among organizations (CORRÊA 1999). The objective of the research seeks to define model to allow to create an applicable proposal of virtual incubator with the use of the theoretical reference of the theory of the virtual organizations - Model VIVO. Is that model the answer to the research question on how the theory of the virtual organizations can contribute with the model of incubators, in order to render to the companies and places, appropriate support services to the challenges of the global competitive scenery in the century XXI? The adopted methodology was theoretical-empiric, in the which, besides the revision of the literature on the subject, it tried to verify the coherence with the practical reality, through case study in the market. The study of chosen case is the Park of the Lakes, a project of territorial economical development with several organizations in cooperation, among them two consultancy companies that develop a business alliance together to supply services to the market. The analysis elaborated dimensions and research categories on strategic alliance, characteristics of VO and core competence, in order to produce relevant considerations to the research work on the model VIVO. Some were used instruments of collection of data as bibliographical and documental research, questionnaire and participant observation. At the end, starting from the elaborated theoretical-empiric research and of the case study used as example, it is possible to present the consolidated proposal of the model VIVO, tends like this, a body of solid work to subsidize the final conclusions and the futures studies on the theme / A Incubadora Virtual (IV) é um dos mais novos tipos de incubadora de negócios. Prestam uma grande variedade de serviços eletronicamente, pela Internet. O conceito de Organização Virtual (OV) é recente e foi introduzido por Mowshowitz (1986), como um novo modelo organizacional, sendo composta por uma rede relativamente estável de empresas independentes, que objetivam participar de cooperações de negócio. O tema "Organizações Virtuais" ganha relevância à medida que é pesquisado como uma alternativa estratégica para aumentar a competitividade e os ganhos dentro de uma cooperação entre organizações (CORRÊA, 1999). O objetivo da pesquisa visa definir modelo que permita criar uma proposta aplicável de incubadora virtual com o uso dos referenciais teóricos da teoria das organizações virtuais - Modelo IVOV. Esse modelo é a resposta à pergunta de pesquisa sobre como a teoria das organizações virtuais pode contribuir com o modelo de incubadoras, a fim de prestar às empresas e localidades, serviços de apoio adequados aos desafios do cenário competitivo global no século XXI? A metodologia adotada foi teórico-empírica, na qual, além da revisão da literatura sobre o assunto, procurou-se verificar a coerência com a realidade prática, através de estudo de caso no mercado. O estudo de caso escolhido é o Projeto Parque dos Lagos, um projeto de desenvolvimento econômico territorial com diversas organizações em cooperação, dentre elas duas empresas de consultoria que desenvolvem uma aliança empresarial para fornecer serviços em conjunto ao mercado. A análise elaborou dimensões e categorias de pesquisa sobre aliança estratégica, características de OV e competência essencial, a fim de produzir considerações relevantes ao trabalho de pesquisa sobre o modelo IVOV. Foram utilizados alguns instrumentos de coleta de dados como pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, questionário e observação participante. Ao final, a partir da pesquisa teóricoempírica elaborada e do estudo de caso utilizado como exemplo, é possível apresentar a proposta consolidada do modelo IVOV, tendo assim, um corpo de trabalho consistente para subsidiar as conclusões finais e os futuros estudos sobre o tema

A gestão empresarial, de uma forma em geral, enfrenta novos contextos quanto à sua estrutura organizacional que suporte a dinâmica do mercado, que incentive a aprendizagem, que esteja antecipada as tendências de consumo e necessidades dos clientes; e que possa ser criativa o suficiente para promover a inovação. Neste sentido, o conhecimento se torna um recurso estratégico para as empresas. Este estudo teve como objetivo propor diretrizes para um portal colaborativo para a transferência do conhecimento no contexto de ambientes de desenvolvimento de empreendimentos inovadores visando a melhoria no processo de inovação e desenvolvimento dos negócios das empresas incubadas. Quanto ao desenvolvimento, baseado em estudos norteadores sobre gestão do conhecimento, transferência do conhecimento para aspectos da colaboração e portais, foi aplicada a metodologia de modelagem organizacional Enterprise Knowledge Development (EKD). Os resultados abordaram três perspectivas: o modelo do estado atual, a análise das necessidades de mudança e o modelo do estado futuro, que apresentam em principal, o modelo de componentes e requisitos técnicos que norteiam as diretrizes para o portal colaborativo, para a transferência do conhecimento, integrado aos objetivos organizacionais, regras do negócio, atores e recursos. / The corporate management, in a general way, faces new contexts for their organizational structure wich supports the market dynamics, wich encourages learning, that is in advance to consumer trends and customer needs, and wich can be creative enough to foster innovation. In this way, knowledge becomes a strategic resource for companies. This research aims to propose guidelines for a collaborative portal for knowledge transfer in the context of innovative projects development in order to improve the innovation process and the development of business of incubated companies. Regarding development, based on guiding studies on knowledge management, knowledge transfer for collaboration aspects and portals, was applied the organization modeling methodology Enterprise Knowledge Development (EKD). The results discussed three perspectives: the as-is model, needs-for-change analysis and the to-be model, in which presents mainly the technical components and requirements model that provide the guidelines for collaborative portal for knowledge transfer, integrated with organizational goals, business rules, actors and resources.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:48:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Herida Cristina Tavares.pdf: 1351959 bytes, checksum: dc3af4d2ae29e463f60d8e1d70db81fd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The objective of this thesis is to analyze the process of creating and transferring knowledge in technological business incubators in view of the innovation process. Thus, to investigate what are the sources of knowledge and what level of generation and transfer of knowledge relevant to innovation in the Technology Incubator of Guarulhos. In particular, the work proposes to examine the modes of knowledge creation and transfer of intra and interincubator and the incubator environment is favorable for the creation and transfer of knowledge. The research procedure used is a literature search. For further research, a case study is also conducted by means of data collection, in which the chief administrator of each incubated company answer a semi-structured questionnaire. The results of this study, with their limited sample size, have no statistical validity to the technology incubator of Guarulhos in general. But shows that formal networks of knowledge are the sources of knowledge more relevant to the development of innovative products or processes of the incubated companies. Another conclusion is that the level of knowledge transfer is directly linked to the level of interaction between enterprises and other agents, either within or outside the incubator. So, about knowledge transfer intra-incubator was found that the level of interaction is low. In an inter-incubator is also low, with few companies having some kind of agreement for cooperation with industry, universities or research centers / O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar o processo de criação e a transferência de conhecimento em incubadoras tecnológicas de empresas, tendo em vista o processo de inovação. Desta forma, investigar quais são as fontes de conhecimento e qual o nível de geração e transferência de conhecimento relevante para a inovação na Incubadora Tecnológica de Guarulhos. Em especial, o trabalho propõe-se a analisar os modos de criação e transferência de conhecimento intraincubadora e interincubadora e se o ambiente da incubadora é favorável para a criação e transferência de conhecimento. O procedimento de pesquisa utilizado é uma pesquisa bibliográfica. Para aprofundar a investigação, um estudo de caso é também realizado, por meio da coleta de dados, no qual o principal gestor de cada empresa incubada responde um questionário semi-estruturado. Os resultados desse estudo, com suas limitações de tamanho de amostra, não têm validade estatística para a incubadora tecnológica de Guarulhos, em geral, mas evidencia que as fontes de conhecimento mais relevantes para o desenvolvimento de produtos ou processos inovativos das empresas incubadas são as redes formais de conhecimento. Outra conclusão é que o nível de transferência de conhecimento está diretamente ligado ao nível de interação das empresas com os demais agentes, seja dentro ou fora da incubadora. Desta forma, com relação à transferência de conhecimento intraincubadora verificou-se que o nível de interação é baixo. Na forma interincubadora também é baixo, com poucas empresas tendo algum tipo de acordo de cooperação com indústrias, universidades ou centros de pesquisa

Tanto as incubadoras como as aceleradoras são organizações especializadas no suporte de empreendimentos em fases iniciais, em especial, aqueles intensivos em inovação conhecidos como startups. Apesar da grande disseminação dessas organizações, há poucas informações na literatura que evidenciem as suas diferenças e as contribuições na jornada do empreendedorismo inovador. Assim, o objetivo principal deste estudo é comparar a diferença entre as propostas de valor das aceleradoras e das incubadoras a partir da percepção das startups que tenham sido tanto incubadas como aceleradas. Entre os objetivos específicos temos: discutir possíveis relações entre as aceleradoras e as incubadoras de negócios; apresentar a evolução das incubadoras e os fatores que induziram o surgimento das aceleradoras, descrevendo os diferentes arquétipos e as implicações que essas organizações têm no ecossistema de empreendedorismo; apresentar o cenário nacional do fenômeno de aceleração e de incubação. O levantamento de dados contará com duas etapas: análise documental de fontes de dados secundárias e estudos de caso com uso de técnica de entrevista e questionário semiestruturado. A análise documental foi feita a partir de banco de dados de artigos científicos, dados oficiais de governos, fundações, revistas e páginas web especializadas e editais de chamamento das próprias organizações. A análise documental fornecerá o retrato de como as incubadoras e as aceleradoras se promovem no ecossistema como organizações importantes no apoio às startups. Em seguida, através de abordagem exploratória descritiva e qualitativa, foram realizadas entrevistas com roteiros semiestruturados com fundadores de startups que foram incubadas e aceleradas, para compreender o valor que cada um desses processos forneceu ao desenvolvimento dessas empresas. Concluiu-se que existe uma dissonância entre o valor percebido pelas startups e o que as incubadoras e as aceleradoras promovem. Também foi possível identificar que a busca por recursos pelas startups tende a não seguir um processo linear, capturando as melhores oportunidades que estejam disponíveis no momento. Por fim, esta pesquisa é um passo exploratório para trazer novas evidências do fenômeno das startups e dos diferentes instrumentos que as constroem. Sugerem-se encaminhamentos que possam preencher lacunas na literatura a respeito dos fenômenos citados, indicando a necessidade de estudos futuros que adensem o conhecimento desse fenômeno. / Both incubators and acelerators are specialized organizations to support early-stage ventures, especially innovation-intensive ones known as startups. Despite the great spread of these organizations, there is a few information in the literature that show their differences and contributions in the journey of innovative entrepreneurship. The main objective of this study is comparing the difference between value porposition of accelerators and incubators from the perception of startups that have been both incubated and accelerated. The specific objectives are: to discuss possible relationships between accelerators and incubators; to present the evolution of the incubators and the factors that led to the emergence of the accelerators, describing the different accelerators archetypes and the implications in entrepreneurship ecosystem; to present the national scenario of acceleration and incubation. The data collection stage had two stages: documentary analysis of secondary data sources; and the case study using interview technique through semi-structured questionnaire. The documentary analysis was made from a database of scientific articles, official data from governments, foundations, journals and specialized web pages and incubators and accelerators calls for proposals. Documentary analysis provided a picture of how incubators and accelerators are promoted to the ecosystem and startups. Then, through a descriptive and qualitative exploratory approach, interviews were conducted with semistructured scripts with founders of startups that were incubated and accelerated to understand the value that each of these processes provided to the development of these companies. It was concluded that there is a dissonance between what the incubators and the accelerators promote and the value perceived by the startups, they are not being able to identify enough characteristics that distinguish them. The reason for it is the diversity of the needs and demands of the startups, different models of accelerators and incubators are formulated that, in many cases, overlap in the benefits offered. It was also possible to identify that the search for resources by startups, whether radical or disruptive startups, does not follow a linear process, capturing the best opportunities available in the ecosystem through a minimally tactical and selective approach. In order to contribute to the understanding of the growing formation of organizations supporting startups, such as incubators and accelerators, and considering the findings of this research, a tool was suggested to define the types of these organizations, loosely termed \"startup guiders\". This tool analyzes three basic dimensions: business model, value proposition and stage of intervention in the development of early-stages ventures. Finally, this research is an exploratory step in bringing new evidence of the phenomenon of startups and of the different instruments that construct them. It is suggested that there be gaps in the literature regarding the mentioned phenomena, indicating the need for future studies that increase the knowledge of this phenomenon.

University managed technology-based business incubators evolved at major research institutions as a mechanism for university professors to pursue commercial applications of their research without having to resign their university positions. These incubators assisted the universities in retention of valuable faculty and also provided for the development of university intellectual property (IP) to a level where commercialization was probable. In addition to faculty retention and the potential for revenue from commercialization of IP, these incubators further developed the universities’ reputations in producing cutting edge research. The physical proximity of the incubators to the universities is crucial because this allows easy access to university intellectual capital, equipment and skilled technical labor that enable fledgling businesses to survive and flourish. Many regional universities are adding an emphasis on research and community economic development to their primary mission of teaching. As a result they are establishing business incubators. The goals for these incubators include creation of an environment and culture for the establishment of student driven companies, improvement of commercialization of university intellectual property, enhancement of the ability to attract technology-based businesses and provision of a living laboratory for student to work within the entrepreneurial environment. Just as is the case for the traditional research universities, business incubators at regional universities provide the supporting infrastructure that permits the university faculty to take advantage of SBIR and STTR programs to launch businesses and move university IP toward commercialization. In addition, the formation of a university-managed business incubator provides an excellent environment for non-university established technology businesses to benefit from the advantages of university faculty, personnel, students and graduates in both consulting and employee positions. Establishing a university managed technology-based business incubator at a regional university requires a strategic vision that integrates the universities core competencies, academic and research missions, senior administration concerns, capital and building campaigns and economic development concerns of the surrounding communities. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for building the strategic vision, developing the necessary infrastructure and mitigating risks when establishing the incubator. In addition, a discussion of lessons learned through the establishment of our university managed technology-based incubator at ETSU is presented through a mini-case study.

<p>Recently, small businesses have attracted much attention from scholars and businessmen, since the significance of these businesses estimated essential in rapid changing business environment from the perspective of wealth and job creation. Simultaneously, it is well known that most infant entrepreneurs are constrained by shortage of financial resource for development and growth of their business. Some entrepreneurs carry out the need for resources by applying the particular methods of financial bootstrapping. Therefore, a number of researches have been conducted in order to define characteristics of bootstrapping and to analysis how it effects to financial decision making process of entrepreneurs.</p><p>Under specific constrains and difficulties, the majority of the start-ups gain financial capital for business establishment from family funds and other informal sources based on personal contacts. Being directly connected with bootstrapping, financial decision making also must be implemented efficiently in the start-up phase of the company. Practically, the majority of nascent entrepreneurs face the lack knowledge about financing of small business frequently. Thus, the study of bootstrapping methods and the exploration of the factors, that effect decision making process, is important for both researchers and entrepreneurs.</p><p>The regarding thesis, in turn, examines bootstrapping behavior and financial decision making processes of four different companies in the Create Business Incubator. First of all, it investigates financing, financial choice, network and learning in order to conceptualize appropriate frame for conducting the thesis work. Then, necessary hands-on information obtained by conducting certain interviews and analyzing the networking and coaching circumstances of the Incubator. Consequently, after analyzing the characteristics of business and entrepreneurs, a priori conclusion and recommendations are proposed which help to increase the financial awareness of nascent entrepreneurs in the Incubator in terms of financing small business.</p>