Common risks and mitigation methods of start-up firms in Dutch business incubators

Abstract

This study, primarily, seeks to reveal the most common and most dangerous risks as perceived by entrepreneurs and also present those mitigation methods that they chose to apply. As a secondary aim, the study looks for correlations between the appearance (encounter) and dangerousness (owner’s perception) with basic firm characteristics, such as age, size, etc. It also looks for differences in risk encounter and risk perception between high-tech and non high-tech firms. Additionally, it explores the methods that entrepreneurs employ to mitigate the risks they encounter.