Towards Inclusivity In Entrepreneurship: Utilizing Highly Skilled Refugees: A Research on Supporting Syrian Refugee Entrepreneurs in Germany and the Netherlands through Collaboration between Business Incubators and Local Governments

Recent findings by the OECD highlight that a significant proportion of refugees in Europe possess high levels of education, often being overqualified for their roles. However, literature seldom addresses the unique challenges these highly educated refugees face when integrating into the labor market. This research examines the role of...

Assessing The Impact of Business Incubation To Startup Performances In Indonesia

Startup arguably becomes one of the key drivers in the country economy. The growth of startup depends on how well the ecosystem provides the support needed by the startup. Like other young companies, startups have higher failure rates due to lack of resources, networks, reputations, credibility, innovation, or marketing knowledge for developing...

The role of intermediaries in supporting local low-carbon energy initiatives

Recent scholarly attention shows that grassroots civil society low-carbon energy initiatives increasingly become part of the subnational climate change governance landscape. Despite their potency in view of consumer-owned distributed generation and enhanced citizen influence in the organization of the energy infrastructure, local low-carbon...

The role of business incubators in the development of sustainable clusters of cultural and creative industries

Clusters of cultural and creative industries are rather widespread in and surrounding inner cities. The development and dynamics of these clusters are objects of study of various conceptual approaches: some aim at their role and significance for urban development, others at their development and dynamics as such. These latter approaches focus...

CCAM (Chicago Cluster of Advanced Manufacturing)

Urban strategy, masterplan and building design for a revitalisation of the manufacturing industry in Chicago in times of transition towards advanced manufacturing.

The Service Innovation Labs‘ Incubator Service: Co-Creating with corporations to enhance innovation using lean startup design

Corporates today face the challenge that their innovation efforts are ineffective and inefficient. Many anticipated ideas and opportunities get suffocated and lost in the dragging long processes within corporates. Bureaucracy, micropolitical dynamics and hierarchy add even obstacles to the process that make it close to impossible to realize...

Creating Creativity; A study into architectural means to stimulate the creative mind and enhance innovation

Over time everything will be a coffee house People are found everywhere working on their laptops; in parks and public buildings, but mostly in coffee houses. It is a place which many prefer above a regular office. Not only to become more productive, but also to become creative. Surroundings are not seen as a distraction, but used as inspiration....

Chances for creative talent in Parkstad Rotterdam: Urban regeneration in Rotterdam-Zuid based on the development of a vital local creative economic cluster

Rotterdam-Zuid is dealing with large socio-economic and spatial-physical problems. The plan that should contribute to a sustainable solution to these problems are as follows. (1) The development of the Parkstad area into a lively mixed urban environment. (2) The establishment of new local routes and connections between neighbourhoods, shopping...

The techno-entrepeneur of the future: Perspectives and practices

Present sustainability problems require a new type of techno-entrepreneurship, in which traditional entrepreneurial qualities are combined with new capabilities related to the role, mission and responsibilities of future engineers. There are two sources of these new capabilities: Innovation Systems of which engineer-entrepreneurs are architects...

The techno-entrepreneur of the future: Perspectives and Practices

Present sustainability problems require a new type of techno-entrepreneurship, in which traditional entrepreneurial qualities are combined with new capabilities related to the role, mission and responsibilities of future engineers. There are two sources of these new capabilities: Innovation Systems of which engineer-entrepreneurs are architects...

Corporate Business Incubator Portfolio Management: Increasing selection effectiveness through more structured and systematic decision making process

A corporate business incubator captures ideas and develops them into new start-up ventures. It is programs or environment or resources employed by corporations to maintain its strategic position, avoid its mainstream business becoming obsolete, explore new businesses, or simply to gain more financially. Due to the stream of new venture ideas,...

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

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...