Incubation of New Ideas: Extending Incubation Models to Less-Favored Regions

Abstract

With various gaps remaining in business incubation literature, developing scales that capture the multi-dimensional constructs of the incubation process remains a necessity. While living and traveling within Brazil, this author will draw a sample from within Brazils well-developed incubation ecosystem in order to investigate the reproducibility and validity of scales whose authors propose measure the constructs that capture the process of business incubation. Accordingly the main objectives have been defined as: 1) Adding to the literature surrounding the reproducibility and validity of the scales used. 2) Providing data on business incubation outcomes that may be useful for incubator planning, process modeling and benchmarking purposes.