network incubator

The distinguish feature of a Network Incubator is the deployment of mechanisms that foster partnerships among teams and succesful firms, thus the fascilitation of the flow of knowledge and talent across organizations and the forging of marketing and technology relationships between them.

A Network Incubator maintains a spirit of entrepreneurship, orientates networked members towards economy of scale, and operates through the deployment of network externalities.

The Internet economy is very much alike the Network Incubator's spirit, orientation, and operation in which access and connections can help quickly launch businesses, increase the traffic at Websites and speed the diffusion of new technologies.

References:

• -- Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria and Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School) Networked Incubators - Hothouses of the New Economy Harvard Business Review Sep.-Oct. 2000, reprint # R00507.
• -- Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Variant (Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley) Information Rules - A Strategic Guide to the Networked Economy Harvard Business School Press 1999.