Abstract
Business incubation is a relatively new phenomenon in scholarship and policy development for small enterprise development. Business incubators offer targeted business support and technical support services to accelerate the growth of emerging and small start-up business enterprises into financially and operationally independent enterprises. South Africa has adopted business incubation as one vehicle for upgrading the SMME economy. This article examines the evolution of policy towards business incubation, current progress, institutional issues and emerging geographies of business incubators as part of the unfolding and dynamic SMME policy landscape in South Africa. Considerable differences are observed between the activities of the network of state-supported incubators as opposed to private sector operated incubators.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 141-155 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 26 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- South Africa
- business incubators
- entrepreneurship
- small enterprise
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Demography
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Cultural Studies
- Urban Studies
