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Coram initiative will pool knowledge of councils, charities and businesses to develop innovative ideas

The corporate start-up incubator is currently developing in large companies as an essential approach to open innovation. It faces a global system involving varied contexts, issues and actors. Its implementation is an art and to succeed the corporate incubator must become a real "interaction architect". Using testimonials and real case studies, the author takes a dive into the structural and social mysteries of corporate incubators. By analyzing the complex mechanisms of interactions, this book decrypts and reveals the keys to the success of these devices and to opening innovation in a broad sense. The concept of an "interaction architect" is related to the art of building fruitful interactions within human systems. Being aware that social systems exist is good, but knowing how to manage them is better

New Coram-led project has seen children's services and businesses identify new ways to tackle problems

Summary: The purpose of this research is to determine the correlation between eight identified entrepreneurial accesses as provided by business incubators with the return on investment experienced by incubator resident firms. The entrepreneurial accesses range from the technical (access to technology and capital), to the behavioral (access to networks), to the knowledgeable (access to training). The access to training is anticipated to emerge as the prominent access in the success of entrepreneurial firms. Therefore, the literature review explores entrepreneurship against a backdrop of both classical political economy theories as well as the major philosophical schools of learning. A test instrument was designed to collect both perception responses and return on investment data from chief executive officers of firms residing in National Business Incubator Association (NBIA) member facilities. Descriptive methods were used to assess associations between the variables of perception and company profitability. ; 2014-06-01 ; Ed.D. ; Department of Applied Science, Technology and Administration ; Doctorate

One starting point for building a movement capable of unleashing multiple rounds of collective action is an incubator campaign—a period of widespread unrest around a particular issue that may last several months or longer. The mobilizing success of the incubator campaign provides the resource infrastructure for subsequent episodes of related movement activity in similar geographical locations, even years into the future. We test these assertions by examining immigrant rights campaign activity in over 260 cities in California between 2006 and 2019. The incubator campaign was positively associated with producing local-level collective action in a wide range of like-minded campaigns sustaining a larger immigrant rights movement in the state. The findings also suggest that an incubator campaign's influence may eventually decay over time. Still, newly infused protest campaigns can reactivate immigrant activist momentum to counter ongoing hostile political environments faced by excluded populations.

Unemployment and poverty especially among the youth have remained major challenges threatening the economic growth and development of townships. "Poverty Trends in South Africa" report, released by (Statistics SA 2017), cites that more than half of South Africans were poor in 2015, with the poverty headcount increasing to 55.5 percent from a low of 53.2 percent in 2011. These challenges therefore demand that the youth be empowered with creative entrepreneurial skills which is one of the skills available to them, in order to make an invaluable contribution to their life and communities. Entrepreneurship is one of the tools to eliminate unemployment and improve economic growth, as result see an increase in entrepreneur incubation center's which are sponsored by government, universities and private companies in townships. These incubations are there to assist entrepreneurs grow their business by providing support and financial assistance. However, despite the rise these incubation programs we don't see their spin-off or benefit in society particularly in townships. They have problems of management, poor infrastructure, poor access to funding for entrepreneurs, lack of entrepreneurial start up programmes, poor or lack of mentoring and coaching problems, and lastly lack to access networks. The main research question is how does enrolling in entrepreneur incubation program impact entrepreneurial behaviour of township entrepreneurs?? A qualitative research approach was chosen as the methodology because this approach underpins an understanding and interpretation of meaning as well as intentions underlying human interaction. Data was collected using semi- structured interviews and 45 semi-structured interviews were conducted. The major findings of the study are as follow:  Incubators in the Northern Cape provides mixture of services in relations to first, second, third and fourth generations incubators. The majority of these incubators are considered weak as they provide only basic services which is shared office facilities to incubatees. The services such mentoring and coaching, training, Wi-Fi, access to finance and networking are lacking. This is considered weakness in terms of theory of incubation.  There is also confusion regarding the typology of incubators. In the Northern Cape we have two mixed incubators, one economic development incubator and one Technology incubator. The incubator missing is the Basic research incubator that should aimed at research and discovery of innovations.  We have also discussed the different success factors of incubation and rated each incubator based on these factors. The majority of incubators performed dismally and are regarded as bad incubators.  The entrepreneurial environment and entrepreneurial resourcefulness will ultimately affect entrepreneurial behaviour. In nutshell, the entrepreneurial environment is government legislation that create conducive environment for incubation but what is lacking is practical support from government. Entrepreneurial resourcefulness which is incubation services offered to entrepreneurs. Incubation centres offered poor services to entrepreneurs. As result the entrepreneurial behaviors of entrepreneurs have not been affected as much or improved during the period of incubation. Lastly, we recommend that there must be a System approach to incubation, incubators adopt incubation model that focus on the needs and circumstance of community. Incubators must have functioning and expert advisory board, business plan and be financially viable in order to survive in the new economy. We also recommend that incubator employ the services of expert professional with experience and qualification in SMME development, business management and understand entrepreneurship or have been entrepreneurs themselves. The purpose of this study was to explore whether these incubators developed the entrepreneurial behaviors of incubatees in the Northern Cape. We have established that that has not happened as result in the future recommend that incubators concentrate on skills development, mentoring and coaching as key aspects of incubation. They must invest on the personal growth and development of their incubatees.