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Business incubators provide an important service network for new and fledgling Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). To ascertain the perception of the importance of business incubation process, perceptions of international interviews are compared. The survey endeavoured to cover all types of business-incubation programme in United States (US), United Kingdom (UK) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). This chapter discusses the main findings from the international interviews and focuses on detailed issues associated to innovation, incubators and modern economy based on the knowledge; this implies that the use of mixed-method approach is most appropriate. The study has included a survey of a sample of seventy-four organizations, ten real interviews focused in the US, UK and GCC, and ten international multi-case studies that investigated, addressed and explained the successful adoption of innovation centres and business incubators worldwide. This study is based on field interviews conducted by the authors in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Qatar during 2013–2014. The interview instruments for the semi-structured in-depth interviews were developed after a thorough literature review. UK case study demonstrated the highest ranking based on the ratio of client companies, at 6 per year.
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Al-Mubaraki, H.M., Husain Muhammad, A., Busler, M. (2015). Data Collection. In: Innovation and Entrepreneurship. SpringerBriefs in Business. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13683-7_3
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