Science and technology incubator is a scientific and technological entrepreneurship service organization with the purpose of promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and cultivating high-tech enterprises and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship center is an important part of national innovation system and an important core content of regional innovation system.
Science and technology incubator is divided into four stages: principle achievement, model achievement, industrial achievement and mature achievement. It corresponds to four stages of venture capital: germination, growth, expansion and maturity.
As a science and technology incubator, it should meet the following basic conditions:
First of all, there must be a physical space for incubating enterprises to enter, that is, an incubation base with a certain area. This physical space has the property of long-term management by the business incubator management organization. This incubation base should be divided into incubation units of different sizes in consideration of the different characteristics of incubation enterprises. Each incubation unit should have basic configuration, and be equipped with certain infrastructure and equipment in the public incubation area to provide services for incubating enterprises, including messages, telecommunications, receiving and dispatching, etc.
Secondly, there is a perfect soft service system. Its contents include accounting, law, information, financing, guarantee, publicity, business plan, training plan, training and education, marketing, technical innovation enterprise management consultant and other services.
Thirdly, we have a business incubator management team with rich experience in product development, project management, marketing and enterprise management.
Therefore, the main function of science and technology incubator is to provide a service-rich incubation space and various information about enterprises and projects for newly-built enterprises that have been carefully selected to settle in business incubators, help enterprises to formulate enterprise development plans such as product development, marketing and human resources development, organize necessary consultation and training, improve the skills of entrepreneurs, promote the rapid growth of enterprises, and enable incubating enterprises to leave business incubators and operate independently within a few years.
Second, the main functions of technology business incubators
The main function of science and technology business incubator is to serve science and technology start-ups (hereinafter referred to as incubating enterprises), and provide R&D, trial production and business facilities, as well as services in policy, law, finance, investment and financing, enterprise management, human resources, marketing and accelerated growth through entrepreneurship training, counseling and consultation, so as to reduce entrepreneurial risks and costs and improve the survival rate and growth of enterprises.
Incubators should generally have four basic characteristics: first, there is an incubator site; Second, they have public facilities; Third, they can provide incubation services; Fourthly, it is oriented to a specific service target-newly established small and medium-sized scientific and technological enterprises.