My Views on Incubation Centers
With a me too attitude across many technical schools and Management institutes, the essence behind incubation concept is getting lost in the rat race to create entrepreneurs.
My personal views on incubators are as follows.
1) Incubators work fine if they work like one (incubation for a new born lasts for weeks, maximum months definitely not years) Any longer and they become Business Centers.
2)Incubation work if I get mentoring by people who have done it before (failure/success are relative terms.. After Success you discover many relatives.. ;)
3)Incubates work if they (entrepreneurs) do not get shielded from failure... on the contrary .. It makes more sense if incubates face the mirror of life/failure early so that they can burn less cash and do course correction fast, real fast.
4) Incubation will work if it is done by Academicians/faculty who are willing to lower their ego and become facilitators between incubates and partners in industry/markets.
Else incubation is a sure, deterministic step towards failure.
Do feel free to comment on these views.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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