El emprendimiento desde la perspectiva de las incubadoras de empresas: Un análisis comparado por países

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is a fundamental part of the economic development of the countries. Therefore the creation of business incubators are born to provide support and accompaniment to new ventures in the process of pre-incubation, incubation and post-incubation of new companies, which has generated a great impact and its replication in several regions of Europe, Central America and Sub America. Offering these centers different services such as: infrastructure, specialized personnel, financing, business contact among others. For this reason, in the present study it has focused on knowing possible similarities in the behavior, at the time of the creation of business incubators in the seven countries analyzed (United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Ecuador). Therefore, it is necessary to know which countries motivate such differences in the creation of incubators. First, the homogeneity of the data is analyzed through the Levene test, later using the ANOVA statistical test, it is observed the existence of differences between the seven countries analyzed at the time of creating the incubators, and applying factorial ANOVA shows the conformation of three groups of countries that have similar behavior in the generation of incubators, due to their public policies, equality of operating characteristics according to their economic territory. Resume this research as future lines of research, those related to the analysis of internal and external factors that determine the failure or success of incubators.