Using Natural Language Processing in Entrepreneurship Research: Exploring the Perceived Benefits of Business Incubation

[...]there is evidence of potential political pressure to keep some results under the radar (Fromhold-Eisebith and Eisebith, 2008; Amezcua, 2010; Bergek and Normann, 2008; Mian, 1997). [...]some studies indicate that among the new firms incubated, few became fast-growing firms and/or reached the sta...

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Published inICSB World Conference Proceedings pp. 1 - 12
Main Authors Gailly, Benoit, Biga-Diambeidou, Mahamadou, Gnekpe, Christian, François, Thomas, Watrin, Patrick, de Viron, Françoise
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington International Council for Small Business (ICSB) 01.01.2016
Subjects
Business incubators
Entrepreneurship
Innovations
Language
Market entry
Natural language processing
Semantics
Social entrepreneurship
Startups
Studies
United States > US
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Summary:[...]there is evidence of potential political pressure to keep some results under the radar (Fromhold-Eisebith and Eisebith, 2008; Amezcua, 2010; Bergek and Normann, 2008; Mian, 1997). [...]some studies indicate that among the new firms incubated, few became fast-growing firms and/or reached the status of middle-sized companies (Schwartz, 2011; Amezcua, 2010; Barringer, Jones and Neubaum, 2005; Phan, Siegel, and Wright, 2005). Besides the above-mentioned mixed research results (Amezcua, 2010; Phan, Siegel, and Wright, 2005), related methodological, theoretical, and empirical limitations (Yu and Nijkamp, 2009) raise criticism about incubator performance studies. Overall, an assessment of public policies regarding incubators is still needed (Bergek and Norrman, 2008; OECD, 2006; Mian, 1996a; Mian, 1997). [...]there are few studies investigating the impact of incubation on incubated ventures' performance from their own point of view (Fromhold-Eisebith and Eisebith, 2008; Schwartz, 2013; Vanderstraeten et al., 2014). [...]it also allows quantitative subsample comparisons.