
Beyond Ping Pong Tables: Creating Community within Business Incubators
While global replication of business incubators seems effortless, incubators need to be adaptive to local contexts. Indeed, establishing a functioning incubator surpasses mimicking a Silicon Valley model, involving context-specific social practices. Our research finds that successfull incubators ensure creation of participation, flexibility, trust and reciprocity and balance between offering top-down support from management and adapting to bottom-up needs of members.