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Managed (by) or affiliated to university(ies)
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Primary objective to facilitate entrepreneurship
and support early stage (new) ventures through a systematic (mid-long term) and
extensive incubation process that includes services and infrastructure
·
Quality controlled intake of clients (startups)
and regular time bound exits in form of graduate startup clients
The definition also includes “Business Innovation Centers”
as well as “Business Accelerators.” The
main ranking, which is based on information submitted by around 300 university
business incubators from 67 countries, is the “University Business Incubator
Rankings.” Here are the top 15
university business incubators:
1
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Rice Alliance for
Technology and Entrepreneurship
|
Rice University
|
United States
|
2
|
SETsquared
|
University of Bath,
Bristol, Exeter, Southampton, Surrey
|
United Kingdom
|
3
|
SCUT National
University Science Park
|
South China
University of Technology
|
China
|
4
|
ATP Innovations
|
University of
Sydney; University of Technology, Sydney; Australian National University;
University of New South Wales
|
Australia
|
5
|
Digital Media Zone
|
Ryerson University
|
Canada
|
6
|
IncubaUC
|
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
|
Chile
|
7
|
Center of Industry
Accelerator and Patent Strategy
|
National Chiao Tung University
|
Taiwan
|
8
|
Encubator
|
Chalmers University of Technology
|
Sweden
|
9
|
Instituto Genesis
PUC-Rio
|
Pontifical Catholic
University of Rio de Janeiro
|
Brazil
|
10
|
TEC Edmonton
|
University of
Alberta
|
Canada
|
11
|
INiTS Universitäres
Gründerservice Wien
|
Vienna University of
Technology, Vienna University “Alma Mater Rudolphina”
|
Austria
|
12
|
DTU Symbion
Innovation
|
Technical University
of Denmark
|
Denmark
|
13
|
Melbourne Accelerator
Program
|
University of
Melbourne
|
Australia
|
14
|
Hust Science Park
Development Corporation
|
Huazhong University
of Science and Technology
|
China
|
15
|
Incubatore di
Imprese Innovative del Politecnico di Torino (I3P)
|
Politecnico di
Torino
|
Italy
|
Important indicators
measured such as number and activity of mentors and coaches, VC and angel
funding availability, the investor network, network of sponsors & partners,
the network relationships with large corporations; government; business
providers and the size of the alumni network.
The “attractiveness quotient” includes:
“investment in client startup” as well as “equity stake.” More information
concerning the methodology used can be found here. Besides the rankings, UBI Index also offers a
best practices document for university business incubators as well as consulting
services.
Recently, I wrote on developing new metrics for measuring the success of technology transfer
offices, here. Would technology transfer
offices benefit from a similar type of ranking offered by UBI Index (does one
exist already)? Could this be another
helpful place to find additional metrics?
In addition, what is the relationship between a well-functioning
incubator (or a poorly functioning one) and the success of a technology
transfer office?
1 comment:
Goodness, everything is so expensive on the UBI website!
I think what is needed is an analysis of the tech transfer offices that have failed to really learn the lessons of how to do it. I think the universities doing ground breaking research end up with patents with broad claims and that makes a big difference.
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