Summary

Background / Terms of Reference

infoDev Business Incubation Toolkit is a live resource for business incubator managers. It provides a global overview on how to establish and manage a business incubator with practical materials from starting an incubator, products and services to clients to financing an incubator. Business incubation manager can share their good practices and results by contributing with content to the toolkit.

The toolkit is only one of the tools available on iDISC, infoDev's Incubator Support Center, a virtual networking and knowledge-sharing platform for incubators and technology parks leveraging ICT to facilitate entrepreneurship and new business creation in developing countries.

BUSINESS INCUBATION TOOLKIT

• Start an incubator
• Select clients
• Graduate clients
• Provide services
  • Business Advice
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Financing
  • ICT services
  • Infrastructure & Facilities
  • Pre-incubation
• Manage an incubator
  • Administration
  • Financial Management
  • Human resources
  • Operations
• Finance an incubator
• Grow and expand
• Raise awareness
• Market an incubator
• Monitor & Evaluate an Incubator
• Affect policies & regulations
• Engage Partners

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE

As a Business Incubator Manager, you may want to share your experiences with us and contribute to building this toolkit.

Please contact one of our regional facilitators:

• Heinz Fiedler, Regional Facilitator, Middle East and North Africa
• Steve Giddings, Regional Facilitator, Africa
• Stefan Schandera, Regional Facilitator, Eastern Europe and Central Asia
• Julian Webb, Regional Facilitator, Asia
• C. César Yammal, Regional Facilitator, Latin America and the Caribbean