TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Madaleno, Margarida
AU  - Nathan, Max
AU  - Overman, Henry
AU  - Waights, Sevrin
        TI  - Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development
        PY  - 2018/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11856
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11856
        AB  - A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are effective. This paper categorises accelerators and incubators within a larger family of co-location interventions. We then develop a single framework to theorise workspace-level impacts. We summarise available evaluation evidence and sketch implications for regional economic policy. We find clear evidence programmes are effective overall. But we know little about how effects operate – or who benefits. Providers and policymakers should experiment further to establish optimal designs.
        KW  - cities
KW  - clusters
KW  - accelerators
KW  - incubators
KW  - entrepreneurship
KW  - economic development
        ER  -