Assessment of the practices of Aalborg University Inkubator: current state and future possibilities.
Author
Ciucci, Manuel
Term
4. term
Publication year
2018
Submitted on
2018-06-05
Pages
84
Abstract
Iværksætterinkubatorer bruges i stigende grad af universiteter til at understøtte entreprenørskab. Dette speciale vurderer praksis i Aalborg Universitets AAU Inkubator, beskriver de nuværende ydelser og undersøger fremtidige muligheder. Med afsæt i tidligere arbejde om AAU Inkubator og inkubatorlitteraturen undersøges, hvordan inkubatorens tilbud adresserer inkubatanters udfordringer, og hvordan inkubationsprocessen kan forbedres. Gennem et kvalitativt, retrospektivt casestudie indsamles og analyseres erfaringer fra tre start-ups, der har deltaget i inkubatorens programmer, sammenholdt med ledelsens perspektiv. Analysen kortlægger iværksætterudfordringer op imod de ydelser, der tilbydes i 2018, sammenligner med praksis beskrevet i 2016, og omfatter en tværgående sammenligning samt benchmarking mod Uppsala Innovation Centre, en svensk toprangeret universitetsinkubator. Ifølge det medtagne uddrag er resultaterne beskrivende: specialet redegør for, hvordan ydelserne opleves at påvirke start-up-udvikling, og fremsætter anbefalinger til at styrke udvælgelse og støtte samt inkubatorens fremadrettede udvikling baseret på interviewfeedback og eksterne best practices.
Universities increasingly use business incubators to support entrepreneurship. This thesis assesses the practices of Aalborg University’s AAU Inkubator, documents its current services, and explores future possibilities. Building on prior work on AAU Inkubator and the incubator literature, it examines how the incubator’s offerings address incubatees’ challenges and how the incubation process could be improved. Using a qualitative, retrospective case study, the author gathers and analyses the experiences of three start-ups that attended the incubator’s programs and considers the management’s perspective. The analysis maps entrepreneurial challenges to the services provided in 2018, contrasts them with practices reported in 2016, and includes a cross-case comparison and a benchmark against the Uppsala Innovation Centre, a top-performing Swedish university incubator. Based on the excerpt, the findings are reported descriptively: the thesis outlines how services are perceived to influence start-up development and formulates recommendations to strengthen selection and support processes and the incubator’s future development, drawing on interview feedback and external best practices.
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