Small enterprise development in South Africa: The role of business incubators
Small enterprise development in South Africa: The role of business incubators
Author(s): Mukovhe Masutha, Christian M. RogersonSubject(s): Economy, Geography, Regional studies, Business Economy / Management, Regional Geography, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Keywords: small enterprise; business incubators; entrepreneurship; South Africa
Summary/Abstract: Business incubation is a relatively new phenomenon in scholarship andpolicy development for small enterprise development. Business incubators offertargeted business support and technical support services to accelerate the growthof emerging and small start-up business enterprises into financially and operationallyindependent enterprises. South Africa has adopted business incubationas one vehicle for upgrading the SMME economy. This article examines the evolutionof policy towards business incubation, current progress, institutional issuesand emerging geographies of business incubators as part of the unfoldingand dynamic SMME policy landscape in South Africa. Considerable differencesare observed between the activities of the network of state-supported incubatorsas opposed to private sector operated incubators.
Journal: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 26
- Page Range: 141-155
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English