Small Enterprise Development in South Africa: the Role of Business Incubators

• Autorzy: Mukhove Masutha , Christian M. Rogerson
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Business incubation is a relatively new phenomenon in scholarship and policy development for small enterprise development. Business incubators offer targeted business support and technical support services to accelerate the growth of emerging and small start-up business enterprises into financially and operationally independent enterprises. South Africa has adopted business incubation as one vehicle for upgrading the SMME economy. This article examines the evolution of policy towards business incubation, current progress, institutional issues and emerging geographies of business incubators as part of the unfolding and dynamic SMME policy landscape in South Africa. Considerable differences are observed between the activities of the network of state-supported incubators as opposed to private sector operated incubators. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Small business; Entrepreneurship; Enterprise incubators; Economic development and small business; Enterprise development

PL

Małe i średnie przedsiębiorstwa; Przedsiębiorczość; Inkubatory przedsiębiorczości; Rozwój gospodarczy a małe i średnie przedsiębiorstwa; Rozwój przedsiębiorstwa

• Czasopismo: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Rocznik: 2014
• Numer: No. 26
• Strony: 141--155

Twórcy

autor

Mukhove Masutha

• University of Johannesburg, South Africa

autor

Christian M. Rogerson

• University of Johannesburg, South Africa

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Identyfikatory

DOI

10.2478/bog-2014-0050