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In this work, the significance of nurturing technology, especially in life sciences, has been studied keeping in view different ways of fostering technologies with emphasis on business/technology incubation. Also, the importance and advantages of incubators in accelerating and transforming a discovery into an innovation is discussed in brief. Furthermore, the impact analysis of incubators and their contribution towards shaping an economy is highlighted with a focus on bioincubators in particular.
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Sridhar, M., Arunkumar, N., Burji, S., Saiyed, T. (2013). An Overview on Technology Nurturing and Incubation from a Life Science Perspective. In: Akhilesh, K. (eds) Emerging Dimensions of Technology Management. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0792-4_5
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