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- Title
A New Small City Business Incubator: A Business Community's Attitudes and Desired Services.
- Authors
Mattare, Martha; Ashley-Cotleur, Cathy; Masciocchi, Christopher M.
- Abstract
To revitalize the downtown area, city officials in Hagerstown, Maryland proposed a unique incubator model that would house new ventures and provide services to existing businesses. Research on small business incubators has addressed success factors, trends, and economic outcomes related to start up businesses. This paper advances that research by expanding the idea of incubators to be centers for developing new and existing businesses in the depressed downtown center. In a needs survey of existing businesses, city leaders determined that the most critical business services that the proposed incubator could offer to all businesses are networking, marketing assistance, and training.
- Subjects
HAGERSTOWN (Md.); MARYLAND; BUSINESS incubators; BUSINESS; CITIES &; towns
- Publication
Journal of Strategic Innovation & Sustainability, 2012, Vol 8, Issue 1, p46
- ISSN
1718-2077
- Publication type
Article