Business incubator

Incubation center or business incubator, technology center or Innovation Centre, also in English called business incubator, is one that often publicly by the respective municipalities or cities ( increasingly with private sector or university participation) supported, institution dedicated to supporting technology-oriented ( innovative as possible ) start-ups and young companies. In addition, technology and incubator centers are in many places contribute to regional economic development.

The concept of business incubation comes from the USA where Joseph Mancuso In 1959, the Batavia Industrial Center in a warehouse in Batavia, New York, opened. In the 1980s it spread to England and continental Europe, and took different forms (innovation centers, pépinières d' entreprises, Techno Poland, science parks, Hochschulinkubatoren ).

Worldwide, there are nearly 10,000, more than 1,000 business incubators in Europe, of which about 500 are in Germany. The majority of these centers assist companies in all industries. However, there are certain issues of the future specialized centers for nanotechnology, information technology, biotechnology, music industry and environmental technology.

Types

A special form is the Hochschulinkubator. Differences are non-profit and For-profit incubators. The latter are mainly financed by private organizations and are more common in the U.S. than in Europe. In addition, industry and mixed business incubators can be distinguished.

For preparation and experience also relevant meetings and conferences are held, such as the Pioneer Festival.

Objectives

Objectives of a business incubator are

  • Promotion of business start-ups
  • Helping young companies
  • Improve the opportunities for growth
  • Increase in the survival rate ( 85 percent on average)
  • Promotion of regional structural change
  • Development of network structures and synergies
  • Technology transfer between science and industry, and between businesses
  • Creation of new high-quality jobs
  • Avoidance of Abwanderns skilled workers

Advantages of a business incubator

Incubators offer both cost as well as benefits for the development center companies. just about

  • Consulting and coaching in the planning, creation and build the company
  • Support in the capital search
  • Affordable and flexible rental space (office, laboratory, manufacturing ) in attractive locations
  • Infrastructure facilities and community facilities (intranet, meeting rooms, cafeteria, etc.)
  • Comprehensive service and service packages through the center management and network partners, such as grants Management
  • Secretarial Services
  • Networking
  • Contact agency
  • Cooperation consulting

Disadvantages of a business incubator

Part of the incubators is not working to cover costs, so that the most public carriers must compensate losses. This usually happens from the public purse. Next, get a number of the centers start-up funding in the form of grants to investments.

These public expenditures flow back only when the company supported could establish itself in the market and the money invested by positive economic effects - are recycled eg income taxes of employees, business tax, corporate income tax.

Technology centers in Germany

The German incubators nationwide eV above the ADT Federal Association of German innovation, technology and incubator centers and at the country level (eg the Association of Bavarian technology centers and incubators ) networked. Incubators are proven since almost 30 years in Germany as an effective economic development tool. However, their effectiveness and efficiency is questioned in a number of scientific publications. However, other studies confirm absolutely that be worth the public investment for the construction and operation of the centers in the form of tax refunds to the displaced businesses be operated for the municipality or city.

  • Bio-Security Competence Centre for Biosafety in Bonen
  • Founder and Technology Center Stedtfeld / Eisenach ( GIS)
  • Start-up Center East Frisia, East Frisia, Aurich main point ( GZO )
  • Competence center for heat pumps and solar thermal NRW in Gladbeck
  • Medical Technology Centre Aachen, Aachen ( MTZ )
  • Technology Center Lübeck, Lübeck (CTA)
  • Technology and commercial center of Schwerin / Wismar
  • Technology and Business Incubator aiti Park, Augsburg
  • Technology and Founders' Centre Halle, Halle (Saale ), Weinberg Campus ( TGZ)
  • Technology and Business Incubator Niederrhein, Kempen
  • Technology and Business Incubator Oldenburg, Oldenburg (TGO )
  • Technology Centre Court, Aachen ( TZA)
  • Technology Center Allen Bach, Allen Bach ( TZA)
  • Technologie Centrum Chemnitz, Chemnitz (TCC )
  • Technology Center Blomenburg, Selent
  • Technology Center Dresden, Dresden ( TZD )
  • Technology Center Dortmund, Dortmund
  • Technology center and business incubator Tectrum - GRIID Duisburg -Neudorf
  • Technology Center Horb am Necker, Horb am Neckar
  • Technology Centre in Constance, Konstanz ( ITC)
  • Technology Center Teltow, Teltow ( TZT )
  • Technology Center Vorpommern, Greifswald and Stralsund
  • Technology Centre Warnemünde, Warnemünde ( DGR )
  • Technology Center Wuppertal, Wuppertal (W -tec )
  • Transfer center for appropriate technologies, Rheine
  • Center for Energy and Technology, Rendsburg
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