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Business incubation and the network resources of start-ups

Pettersen, Inger Beate; Aarstad, Jarle; Høvig, Øystein Stavø; Tobiassen, Anita Ellen
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© 2016 pettersen et al. open access this article is distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution 4.0 international license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the creative commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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2016-02-03
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Pettersen, I. B., Aarstad, J., Høvig, Ø. S., & Tobiassen, A. E. (2016). Business incubation and the network resources of start-ups. Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 5(1), 1.   http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13731-016-0038-8
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The focus in this paper is to study whether business incubation can provide

entrepreneurial start-ups with critical network resources. We make a distinction

between incubator-provided network resources and start-ups’ “own” external

network resources that are unrelated to the incubator context. Although there

has been an increasing number of studies examining incubated entrepreneurs’

network resources, to our knowledge, this is the first study that explicitly

compares incubator-provided network resources and start-ups’ own external

network resources. Analyzing the results from qualitative interviews with start-up

tenants at a technology incubator in Bergen, Norway, we find that network

resources acquired by the start-ups’ own efforts (rather than network resources

facilitated by an incubator) were most critical in all phases of enterprise

development. They played a crucial role in terms of idiosyncratic (non-generic)

knowledge generation as drivers of innovation, catalysts for financial contributors,

and as a means to organizational reputation and market access. Nevertheless,

internal networking with other incubator firms and external network resources

facilitated by the incubator were also helpful and complementary, but they were more

generic in nature and provided limited idiosyncratic resources. We also found that

incubator network resources tend to have traits similar to those of identity-based

network resources because they are not mainly governed by economic interests, but at

the same time, they are not path-dependent. Inter-tenant network resources, therefore,

can have nonbinding weak-ties properties and provide non-redundant information.
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SpringerOpen
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Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship;5(1)

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