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‘The Biosciences Knowledge Value Chain and Comparative Incubation Models’

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This research derives from an EU DG Enterprise (IPS Programme) project on bio-incubation, called Bio-Link. The Bio-Link project is innovative in three ways. First, it involves an international comparative analysis of biotechnology incubators of the kind that is rarely if ever done. Second, the incubator representatives are monitored and investigated by an academic partnership team. Third, there is a stated aspiration by the incubator companies to engage in co-incubation across borders. Co-incubation is, as far as we are aware, a new kind of boundary crossing innovation in which advanced start-up businesses are assisted to enter other national markets and/or benefit from specialised services or scientific, technological, or commercial knowledge absent in the home country but present in a partner country. Evidence from research on European, Israeli and North American bioincubators is included to compare, contrast and enable future judgements of incubator appropriateness to biotechnology.

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Cooke, P., Kaufmann, D., Levin, C. et al. ‘The Biosciences Knowledge Value Chain and Comparative Incubation Models’. J Technol Transfer 31, 115–129 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-005-5025-3

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