Abstract:
India has always been a land of business and trade. With changing
political, legal, and economic factors, business incubators have been
established to stimulate new business creation. Business incubators
work as helping hand for the early stage companies by providing them
necessary support, financial, and technical services. They are designed
to accelerate the success and growth of entrepreneurial companies.
Within the incubation space, we find the emergence of a new type
of incubators – the university business incubators (UBIs). Not much
research exists about them, especially from an Indian context. In our
study, we created a list of Indian UBIs from existing incubator list
and divided it into two phases. In phase I, we created a typology of
Indian UBIs which would help us in better understanding their array of
services. Also, we mapped the various attributes of UBIs to understand
the emerging trend of their services. In phase II, we dug deep into
our data to connect with selected incubators and incubatees, trying to
understand which services are availed and what bottlenecks are faced.
Thus, the study develops a typology of Indian UBIs and analyses the
trend of their services provided over the zones of India. The paper
aims to benefit entrepreneurs, incubators, partnering agencies, and the
government in better policymaking.
