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Brazilian Business Incubators: Brokerage in a Multi-Actor Approach to Local Economic Development

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Local Governance, Economic Development and Institutions

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This chapter explores the role of business incubators as meso-institutions of local economic development, through the brokerage actions of their managers in influencing the networking dynamics of entrepreneurs. Acting as enabling brokers, incubators facilitate the public-private interaction through policy and planning (Helmsing 2006), and play the role of development policy agent to prevent high rates of closure in start-ups (SEBRAE 2007). Nevertheless, the incubators’ brokerage, and the potentialities this brings to local development processes, are scarce. Consequently, this implies a poor understanding and management of these networks.

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    Georgina M. Gómez (Senior Lecturer in Institutions and Local Development) & Peter Knorringa (Professor of Private Sector and Development) (Senior Lecturer in Institutions and Local Development) &  (Professor of Private Sector and Development)

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Corradi, A.A. (2016). Brazilian Business Incubators: Brokerage in a Multi-Actor Approach to Local Economic Development. In: Gómez, G.M., Knorringa, P. (eds) Local Governance, Economic Development and Institutions. EADI Global Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137557599_15

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