ABSTRACT Background: ‘One way you might be able to take your idea and make it a business' Business incubator originated in the United States, with aim to provide supportive environment for new ventures, provide incubatees' with affordable office spaces and a variety of support services and its considered as a tool for promoting innovation, economic growth and employment. Purpose: Investigation on what should be considered most important when planning to start a BI. Should there be synergies through collaborations or reduced cost through shared meeting spaces and technical equipment. Delimitation: I acknowledged the fact that when practitioners share co- working spaces in the Business Incubation, there could be both advantages and disadvantages. This study was focus on the benefits. Method: The research had a deductive qualitative approach. The data was collect through a global survey sent out by email and six firms participated. Conclusions: Overall conclusion for this study is that, cohabitation in the BI promotes networking between entrepreneurs, both new and mature firms. Entrepreneurs’ benefits from share co-working space through collaboration, relationships between incubated firms. Thus, internal networking. However, networking should be considered a deliberate strategy of a business Incubator and synergies should be considered based on that. Language: UK English Keywords: Business incubator, Co-working spaces, Incubation management, Sustainability, Networking. / <p>-</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-46649 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Tabetando, Elisabeth Atem |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), - |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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