Stimulating business incubation performance: role of networking, university linkage and facilities

Business incubators have emerged worldwide as highly popular methods for promotion of economic development in the industrialised and emerging economies. The present study tries to analyse the role of Networking; linkage with university and Facilities on Technology Business Incubation (TBI) performance. The study uses PLS-SEM to design a model collecting data from 60 managers of TBIs in India. Prior studies have taken Networking; Linkage with University and Facilities as independent variables and the mediating role of facilities has not been examined earlier. This motivated the researchers' to examine this. The findings support the role of networking on TBI performance. In case of Linkage with University with facilities as mediating variable the indirect effect is 0.54 and direct effect becomes negative and insignificant highlighting full mediation of facilties. Networking and linkage with University emerge as important predictors to stimulate TBI performance. Implications of the study: The present model can help the TBI managers to execute their functions in an effective and productive way with due focus on linkage with universities through facilities to stimulate TBI performance. The results of positive and significant impact of networking on TBI performance can serve to help TBI managers better serve their clients.