Over the past 15 years, accelerators emerged as a popular and distinct new form of
intermediary organization, playing a key role in supporting entrepreneurial and innovation …

Accelerator programs are an increasingly important part of entrepreneurial ecosystems.
While accelerators have core defining features—fixed-term, cohort-based educational and …

Prior research hints at the accelerator as a new generation incubation model. Accelerators
have become an umbrella term for any program providing a service structure of mentorship …

The lean startup methodology has been steadily gaining widespread popularity during the
past few years. As part of this trend, startup accelerator programs have begun to adopt the …

Despite their significance, firms created by students have been the subject of little research.
Adopting the entrepreneurial ecosystem framework, this paper examines the growth of …

The evolution of the incubator is retraced from the foundational research in the 1950s and
1960s of Research-on-Research-that explored the R&D process in a number of contexts to …

Accelerators are a recent yet rapidly growing phenomenon within entrepreneurial
ecosystems. The distinctive characteristics exhibited by accelerators, relative to previous …

Accelerator programs are emerging in recent years as a new model of startup assistance.
However, despite the rapid proliferation of such programs, academic literature on the topic is …

There is a debate within the academic literature as to when during their venture's
development an entrepreneur should augment their identification of a sustainable business …

Despite the emergence of startup accelerators as venture development organizations
(VDOs) to high-growth firms, research has yet to identify where these accelerators fit into the …