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Dissertation
Business Incubator Effectiveness in Facilitating Entrepreneurial Accesses and the Impact on Incubator Client Firm Sustainability and Profitability
University of West Florida Libraries
Doctor of Education (EDD), University of West Florida
2014
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to determine the correlation between eight identified entrepreneurial accesses as provided by business incubators with the return on investment experienced by incubator resident firms. The entrepreneurial accesses range from the technical (access to technology and capital), to the behavioral (access to networks), to the knowledgeable (access to training). The access to training is anticipated to emerge as the prominent access in the success of entrepreneurial firms. Therefore, the literature review explores entrepreneurship against a backdrop of both classical political economy theories as well as the major philosophical schools of learning. A test instrument was designed to collect both perception responses and return on investment data from chief executive officers of firms residing in National Business Incubator Association (NBIA) member facilities. Descriptive methods were used to assess associations between the variables of perception and company profitability.
Details
- Title
- Business Incubator Effectiveness in Facilitating Entrepreneurial Accesses and the Impact on Incubator Client Firm Sustainability and Profitability
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Publisher
- University of West Florida Libraries
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 154
- Copyright
- © 2014 Stephen Woodrow Whitt
- Identifiers
- 99380090853606600
- Academic Unit
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Doctor of Education (EDD)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Education (EDD), University of West Florida