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September 27, 2022
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Business incubation: innovative services in an entrepreneurship ecosystem

Publicated to:Service Industries Journal. 35 (14): 783-800 - 2015-10-26 35(14), DOI: 10.1080/02642069.2015.1080243

Authors: Fernández, MTF; Jiménez, FJB; Roura, JRC

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Univ Alcala de Henares, Econ Aplicada, Fac Econ, Alcala De Henares 28802, Spain - Author
Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Econ Aplicada 1, Fac Ciencias Jurid & Sociales, Madrid 28032, Spain - Author

Abstract

This article studies the process of business services provision by business incubators. It considers this provision as an innovative and dynamic process, carried out in an open innovation context, where many elements from the entrepreneurship ecosystem (EE) interact. Thus, the article creates new knowledge because conceptually, it defines and relates all the key elements that are the source of innovation and value added: business services themselves, the EE, the context of open innovation and the features of that interaction. This conceptualization is tested empirically in two different scopes, a broad one with 255 business incubators around the world, and a Spanish case with two university incubators with some references to a foreign two-country study. Results detect some patterns of service provision according to ownership, size and partnership of the business incubators and show the efficacy of the cooperation of the private and public sectors and the universities.

Keywords

Business developmentBusiness incubatorChallengeConceptual frameworkEntrepreneurEntrepreneurshipFirm ownershipFirm sizeInnovationL26L84O31OwnershipPartnership approachService sectorSpainTheoretical study

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Service Industries Journal due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2015, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Management of Technology and Innovation. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q4 for the agency WoS (JCR) in the category Management.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.7. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 2.11 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)
  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 20.66 (source consulted: Dimensions Aug 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-08-02, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 52
  • Scopus: 66

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-08-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 421.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 450 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 16.
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 1 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Fernández Fernández, María Teresa) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Fernández Fernández, María Teresa.