Introduction

Abstract

Business incubators (BIs) have been established around the world to stimulate new business creation. This book can be considered as the classical reading on business incubation and it provides a clear understanding of this novel and modern tool—business incubation to promote entrepreneurship. It will give both practitioners and academics a thorough overview on ins-outs of business incubation. This chapter provides the general introduction; it explains the research problem, the importance, contribution, objectives, question, method and structure of the research. The aim of this book is to investigate and identify key factors of innovation and entrepreneurship that facilitate the outcomes of successful implementation of business incubation programs. Its 5 chapters, featuring the advice and insight of United States (US), United Kingdom (UK) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states incubation professionals and interviews, are divided into five main sections.