Forwarding, Presenting and Evaluating a Business Plan An incubator needs to have a system in place for gathering information from prospective tenants to assess their suitability. This article links to the 'Request Form for Participation in Business Incubator' which is a template form for gathering relevant information from businesses interested in joining an incubator. More

Business Selection Process Selecting the right business to join an incubator is one of the important tasks of the management team. There are many crieteria to be weighed up, including how ready the applicant is for an incubation process, what the process could add to the applicant's business, and what the applicant's business will add to the incubator. More

Prospecting New Entrepreneurs This article sets out a variety of tools to market an incubator within its catchment community. The tools range from promotion of incubator facilities and services to building relationships with research centres and other sources of new businesses. More

Business plan contest example and documentation by Palestine PICTI More

Pre-incubation agreement template by Palestine PICTI More

Example of Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) by Palestine PICTI More

Application form in French used by Morocco Casablanca Technology Park More

Contract tool used by Morocco Al Akhawayn University More

Supporting incubation projects from first contact to post-incubation by Morocco RMIE More

Incubator application form in French by Morocco RMIE More

Preliminary Application Questionnaire by Jordan iPARK More

Youth entrepreneurial evaluation matrix by PICTI More

First Training for Business Incubator Managers in Mongolia Delivered The Mongolian National Business Incubators Federation MNBIF and Business Talent Women's Incubator BTWI have successfully conducted the first ever training for 42 business incubator managers in the country. More

infoDev Publishes Mixed-Use Incubator Handbook Business incubation formally began in the US in the 1960s, and later developed in the UK and Europe through various related forms (eg. Innovation centres, technopoles/science parks). More

Desafío Intel 2009 Competition in Chile announced winners Voxound, an innovative ICT startup from Chile and producer of a free music player for Windows, is the winners of the Desafío Intel 2009. The competition is organized in Chile by Intel Corporation, a global technology leader, and the infoDev global incubator network member 3IE Institute of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Valparaíso. More

infoDev Incubator Training Program Well Received More

"Science and Innovations for Society" Competition in Ukraine Supported by “Kharkov Technology”, the Academy of Science of Ukraine and the British Council in Ukraine, the 4th Annual International Competition “Science and Innovations for Society” was launched. The goal of this competition is popularization of national scientific achievements, attraction of public attention to the problems of national science, raising the prestige of science in society, assistance to wider introduction of scientific developments and innovations into practice, search of talented science popularizers in every profession, involvement of youth into scientific and innovation activities. More