Mr. Lind, an entrepreneur who in 1997 founded Strategic Partners, an emerging markets corporate finance firm specializing in telecommunications and finance, has so far established InQbiz incubators in Bombay, India, and Cape Town, South Africa.
TWO years after the Council of Fashion Designers of America established an incubator program in the garment district, the first group of young designers to cohabit in its space has left the nest, so to speak.
He also established the incubator, Crea-world, when he was CEO of Ericsson Turkey/Middle East.
Based in the capital Riyadh, Badir was established in 2008 to launch incubators in five major sectors – starting with ICT, advance manufacturing and biotechnology.
A dozen projects are currently under evaluation by Swarm, including several which let crypto-tokens unlock certain software features that non-paying users could not access, similar to some shareware software popular in the late 1990s.Mr Dietz has grand plans for Swarm: not content with financial support, he hopes to establish technology incubators for selected projects in cities across Europe.
Like KnowledgeCube, it also will establish local incubators through strategic partnerships with local companies.
Another way big companies can support startups is through establishing local incubators to engage in R&D in cooperation with talented local entrepreneurs and the academic community.
Establishing an incubator structure for spin-offs seems to be a learning process during which little decision making can be exerted over senior management's social network in the financial and business community for securing the financial, technological and human resources for the science-based entrepreneurial firms.
JVP's efforts in the cybersecurity space also go beyond the investment process, with the firm recently establishing an incubator, known as JVP Cyber Labs, specifically focused on identifying, nurturing and building the next wave of Israeli cybersecurity and big data companies.
It led a $30 million investment in MobileCoin — a startup that's advised by Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of encrypted messaging app Signal and Open Whisper Systems — and it is establishing an incubator that will nurture ideas and young projects with financial backing and mentorship.
