1. Conditions that technology incubators should meet
Technology incubators are technology entrepreneurship service organizations with the purpose of promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and cultivating high-tech enterprises and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship centers are an important part of the national innovation system and an important core content of the regional innovation system.
The technology incubator is divided into four stages: principle results, model results, industrial results, and mature results. They correspond to the four stages of venture capital: the embryonic stage, the growth stage, the expansion stage, and the mature stage.
As a technology incubator, it should meet the following basic conditions:
First of all, there must be a physical space for incubation companies to enter, that is, an incubation base of a certain area. This physical space has long-term potential. The attributes of business incubator management organizations. This incubation base should take into account the different characteristics of incubated enterprises and be divided into incubation units of different sizes. Each incubation unit should have basic configurations and be equipped with certain infrastructure and equipment in the public incubation area. and provide exclusive services to incubated enterprises, including text, telecommunications, sending and receiving, security, conferences, reception, secretarial and other services.
Secondly, have a sound soft service system. Its content includes accounting, legal, information, financing, guarantee, publicity, business plan, training plan, training education, marketing, technological innovation enterprise management consulting and other services.
Third, we have a business incubator management team with rich experience in product development, project management, marketing and business management.
Therefore, the main function of a technology incubator is to provide incubation space with rich service content and various enterprise and project-related information for new enterprises that have been carefully selected to enter the business incubator, and to help enterprises formulate product development and market plans. Enterprise development plans such as marketing and human resources development are organized, and necessary consultation and training are organized to improve the various skills of entrepreneurs, promote the rapid growth of enterprises, and enable incubated enterprises to leave the business incubator and operate independently within a few years.
2. The main functions of technology business incubators
The main function of technology business incubators is to serve technology-based entrepreneurial enterprises (hereinafter referred to as incubated enterprises) by carrying out entrepreneurship training, Counseling and consulting, providing venues and exclusive facilities for R&D, trial production, and operation, as well as services in policy, legal, finance, investment and financing, corporate management, human resources, marketing, and accelerated growth to reduce entrepreneurial risks and Start-up costs, improve the survival rate and growth of enterprises, and cultivate successful technology enterprises and entrepreneurs.
Incubators should generally have four basic characteristics: first, there is an incubation site, second, there are public facilities, third, they can provide incubation services, and fourth, they are oriented to specific service objects-new founders. technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises.