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Technology business incubation mechanisms and sustainable regional development

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This article introduces various aspects of technology business incubators (TBIs), emphasizing their increasing role in the spatial context where they are used as platforms and drivers of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems. It outlines the key themes of the emerging role of TBIs in sustainable regional development: TBI biodiversity of ecosystems; accelerating startups in the entrepreneurial university; TBI mechanisms challenged by green technology to sustain regional development; and TBIs’ connecting role between entrepreneurship education, experiential knowledge, and regional development. It proposes an agenda for future research on the role of TBIs as bridging mechanisms and drivers of entrepreneurship and regional development.

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  1. A Special Issue of the Academy of Management Learning & Education (2009) on technology management education does make some references to entrepreneurship.

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The guest editors are thankful for the time and hard work of many colleagues who volunteered to review the manuscripts and offered valuable advice to the authors (confidentiality rules do not permit us to list their names). We are especially grateful to the Toulouse Business School, for providing travel grants and necessary funding to hold the conference that led to this special issue project. Our thanks are also due to Dr. Albert Link and Dr. Donald Siegel, Editors of the Journal of Technology Transfer, for providing encouragement and support in putting this special issue together.

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  1. Toulouse Business School, Toulouse University, Toulouse, France

    Wadid Lamine

  2. School of Business, State University of New York, New York, USA

    Sarfraz Mian

  3. EM Lyon Business School, Lyon, France

    Alain Fayolle

  4. Imperial College London, London, UK

    Mike Wright

  5. University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

    Mike Wright

  6. Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Magnus Klofsten

  7. International Triple Helix Institute and CIMR, University of London, Birkbeck, Stanford, CA, USA

    Henry Etzkowitz

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Lamine, W., Mian, S., Fayolle, A. et al. Technology business incubation mechanisms and sustainable regional development. J Technol Transf 43, 1121–1141 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-016-9537-9

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