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Provide services: Business Advice

As entrepreneurs start or expand their business, they often need advice on a broad range of topics, including business planning, staffing, finding and working with suppliers, identifying the appropriate location for the business, navigating the regulatory landscape to obtain the necessary licenses, marketing, developing effective business processes, etc. The value of mentoring and coaching the entrepreneur has also increasingly been recognized as one of the key values provided by business incubators.

This collection of articles seeks to provide ideas for the types of services that can be offered, as well as some of the lessons in how to effectively provide them.

Good Practices

Consultants and Advisers Incubator's usually have a fairly small number of dedicated staff, and so many make use of external experts to help provide high q... More

Basic Support Offered to Incubated Companies This article sets out a process to guide an incubator in delivering basic services to incubated enterprises. More

Operational Support Services This article sets out the portfolio of six core services provided by incubators: reception, secretarial, security, communications... More

Management/Strategic Support Programs This article provides a checklist of core support programs including help with business strategy and action, training, and mentori... More

Business Plan Contest Incubators often play a role in stimulating entrepreneurship in their catchment region, in addition to helping incubated enterpris... More

Featured Tools

Training Material Available at INGENIO Incubator, Uruguay More

Small Organizations Tutoring System (SAPO) by Brazil Genesis Institute (in Portuguese) More

Highlights

Latin America: Agora Partnerships Calls for High Potential Impact Entrepreneurs Agora Partnerships calls for Latin America entrepreneurs to apply for 2013 acceleration activities. Applicants might be benefited ... More

12 founders graduated from TOPICA Founder Institute 2nd semester Twelve founders from ten startups participated in TOPICA Founder Showcase and presented their business models and demo products in... More

SMEs: win back this lucrative market from accountants Superannuation planning is amongst the most popular areas of advice sought by owners of small to medium enterprises (SMEs), but ac... More

Late payments can be devestating for SMEs - Business Partners Late and protracted payments by large corporations and state agencies is putting an increasing number of South Africa's small and ... More

Psychology Intervention on Entrepreneurs Being an area little addressed in entrepreneurship, we consider psychology intervention an important element, which could underpin... More

infoDev Global Business Incubator Management Training This training program is the first-of-its-kind, drawing from the lessons, models, and examples in business incubation from across ... More

European Commission Releases Study on European SMEs This report looks at business support for EU SMEs in international markets and incorporates a survey programme of SMEs and review ... More

IT-JUMP Competition 2011 in Belarus addresses young IT innovators Hi-Tech Park Minsk and BAVIN Belarus organize IT-JUMP 2011 Belarus - a competition aimed at increasing the popularity of innovativ... More

Rewarding Innovation at Unconvention 2011 Villgro, an iDISC network member, presents a one-of-a-kind signature event that will provide a common meeting ground for innovator... More

Young Leaders in Moscow Turn their Passion into SME Success At last month's training program at the Moscow International Higher Business School, 150 university students from across Russia co... More

Ten months to sow change in rural India More

Incubated Coffee & Incubated Tea The Incubated Coffee/Incubated Tea is an open networking event organized by Timişoara Software Business Incubator (Romania), dedic... More

Second Capacity Building Programme for Business Incubation Managers of Asia Pacific Incubation Network (APIN) organized The second Capacity Building Programme for the Business Incubation Managers of Asia Pacific Incubation Network (APIN) was organize... More

First Training for Business Incubator Managers in Mongolia Delivered The Mongolian National Business Incubators Federation MNBIF and Business Talent Women's Incubator BTWI have successfully conducted... More

infoDev Publishes Mixed-Use Incubator Handbook Business incubation formally began in the US in the 1960s, and later developed in the UK and Europe through various related forms ... More

Events

Private Equity & Venture Capital Forum LAVCA will hold the second annual Chile Private Equity and Venture Capital Forum on June 2 at the Ritz-Carlton Santiago. The one d... More

ED2009 The Entrepreneurship Development Conference Both Entrepreneurship Education and Business Creation programmes have received growing attention for the impact they can have on s... More

innovact 2008: The European Forum for Innovative Growth Companies Unique in Europe, Innovact gives innovative young European companies solutions for their development: training, partnerships, fina... More

Case Studies

Lessons on Virtual Business Incubation Services This report on lessons learned from virtual business incubation is to provide insight into the potential of virtual incubation ser... More

Asian Institute of Management and Ayala TBI Case Studies on Technology Entrepreneurship More

Success Stories

High-speed Market Entry: 42 Gradusi (Tbilisi/Georgia) 42 Gradusi was founded in Tbilisi (Georgia) in 2007 by a group of IT engineers. The vision was to create a truly customer-oriented... More
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