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Asia/Pacific

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infoDev supports a network of business incubators spread throughout the Asia Region (South Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific). This network compromises a variety of incubator models including universities, science parks, NGOs, and the private sector. Members of the network have partnerships with various organizations and stakeholders including government agencies, financial institutions and venture capitalists.

Asia network overview (2008)

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Highlights

India and Botswana Sign MOU for Development of MSMEs

15 July 2010 | India's National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) and Local Enterprise Authority (LEA), a statutory authority of the government of Botswana, both of which support micro, small & medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the corresponding countries, signed an agreement ... More

Mongolia's First International Forum on Business Incubation a Success With over 500 participants, the Mongolian National Business Incubator Federation held its Inaugural Business Incubator Conference ... More

Agribusiness SME incubated at ICRISAT receives Sankalp 2010 Award Aakruthi Agricultural Associates of India (AAI), an incubatee of Agri Business Incubator-ICRISAT, received the emerging enterprise... More

Training for Agribusiness Incubator Managers conducted by ICRISAT Designed to train business managers on the operations and management aspects of agribusiness incubators, ten managers from differe... More

Have your say on iDISC.net Take part in our survey on infoDev's Incubator Support Center (iDISC) More

Global Network Welcomes 300th Member! infoDev's Global Network of Business Incubators welcomes it's 300th member to idisc.net! Elevaglobal is a business incubator based... More

Special Announcement: Save the Date for 4th Global Forum! infoDev’s 4th Global Forum on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, in cooperation with the Government of Finland, will be held in Helsin... More

Harnessing the Transformational Power of ICTs for Development in Africa The World Bank signed an agreement with private and public sector partners to collaborate on a joint effort to improve the lives o... More

Ten months to sow change in rural India More

Offline versus Online? Combine it! E-learning and online training saves travel time and costs, and allows flexible timing. 109 trainees took the chance to participat... More

Outcomes of ISBA 2010 - The Indian Conference on Business Incubation The Indian Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Parks and Business Incubators Association (ISBA), organized the “ISBA 2010: Innova... More

Second Capacity Building Programme for Business Incubation Managers of Asia Pacific Incubation Network (APIN) organized The second Capacity Building Programme for the Business Incubation Managers of Asia Pacific Incubation Network (APIN) was organize... More

Announcement: ISBA 2010 - The Indian Conference on Business Incubation This year ISBA is organizing Fourth Conference on Business Incubation. The focal theme of this conference is Innovation through In... More

First Training for Business Incubator Managers in Mongolia Delivered The Mongolian National Business Incubators Federation MNBIF and Business Talent Women's Incubator BTWI have successfully conducted... More

infoDev Study on Sustainable ICT Incubators in Sub-Saharan Africa Developing countries are increasingly embracing innovation and entrepreneurship as a key component of their social and economic de... More

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Incubation Asia Network covers the following countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. There are a total of 22 business incubators in the whole region.

http://www.incubationasia.com

Regional Snapshot

104 organizations in 17 countries throughout Asia/Pacific.

Regional Statistics

Regional Facilitator

Julian Webb

Good Practices

Pre-Incubation Accelerated Business Coaching

Generating good clients for the VIT Technology Business Incubator

24 March 2008 | The Pre-Incubation Accelerated Business Coaching program of the Vellore Institute of Technology Technology Business Incaubtor (VITTBI) has proven to be an effective way of developing good entrants to the incubator. More

Case Studies

Asian Institute of Management and Ayala TBI Case Studies on Technology Entrepreneurship

23 September 2008 | More

Papers

PROMOTING INNOVATION THROUGH TECHNOPARKS IN KAZAKHSTAN

Slavo Radosevic and Marat Myrzakhmet

16 April 2007 | Technoparks are believed to promote economic growth and generate value by enhancing the ability of its tenants —high technology firms — to survive and grow in a very competitive environment. Nevertheless, there is conflicting evidence regarding the actual effe... More

Success Stories

Compassion, Creativity & Collaboration: The Story of a Shanzhai Breathing Apparatus

A grass-root innovation story from China, reprinted from the Honeybee Newsletter Vol 20 – April – June 2009

21 January 2010 | Shanzhai literally means ‘mountain village’. Though of late, this has becomevery popular not just in China but worldwide for’underground’, ‘small scale’or for many, the evidence of grassroots innovations and wisdom of common people(China Daily, 2009). This ter... More

Building Furniture Business Success: Arrows LTD, Kyrgyz Republic

28 May 2009 | More

Treasure Hunt in Agriculture Wastelands: Agribusiness Venture at TREC-STEP, India

28 November 2008 | More

GloTech Organics: Innovative Agribusiness Incubated at TREC-STEP, India

25 November 2008 | More

Vietnam Medical Software: CRC Topic Incubator Graduate Success

6 October 2008 | More

Tianjin Shengmiluo Trade Company: arts and crafts

A successful client incubated by the Tianjin Women's Incubator

9 May 2008 | More

Chaoyi online bookstore, incubated by Tianjin Women's Business incubator

Starting an innovative business to change fate - the words of a successful entrepreneur

8 May 2008 | More

Tianjin XixiuWenya Wedding Dress Rental Service Center incubated by Tianjin Women's Business Incubator

8 May 2008 | More

Utilizing IT technology as an information highway for China's enterprises

Tianjin Zhongke Network Technology Co. Ltd a succesful company incubated by Tianjin Women's Business Incubator

9 May 2008 | More

Sumivol Foods client company incubated at KIAsia in Thailand

15 April 2008 | More

Outsourcing to village based production centers at ROPE in India

7 April 2008 | More

Desicrew Back Office Services Incubated at TeNet India

27 February 2008 | More

Grassroots Innovation & Traditional Knowledge: Stories from the Field

3 December 2007 | More

TREC-STEP shares 8 success stories about its entrepreneurs in India

3 December 2007 | More

Featured Tools

Venture Incubation Package for Financial Management by TREC-STEP

9 April 2008 | More

Photos

Regional Workshop: Asia

6 October, 2007 | View Photos

Statistics

The following table provides a statistical overview of data for this region, collected from the iDisc member directory. Note that zero values are excluded throughout.

Type

	Incubators
Academic	8
Government	13
NGO	18
Private sector	63

Financial Model

	Incubators
For-profit	11
Not-for-profit	91

Targets

	Incubators
Rural poor	12
Urban poor	9
Women	13
Youth	15

Sectors

	Incubators
Agriculture	11
Biotechnology	6
Clean Technology	4
Information and Communication Technologies	16
Manufacturing	10
Mixed Use	14
None	0
Textile	3

Services

	Incubators
Facilities	22
Finance	22
Incubation and Business Development	25
International Business Services	14
Networks and Synergy	20
Technology Transfer	16

Objectives

	Incubators
Affect policymaking	15
Commercialize research	13
Create companies that export revenues	13
Create jobs	20
Develop profitable enterprises	24
Provide income generating opportunities for disadvantaged populations	17
Raise the awareness of potential entrepreneurs	20

Number of Clients

# Reporting	54
Min	2
Mean	109
Max	2,123
Total	5,913

	Incubators
1-5	7
6-10	9
11-15	4
16-20	9
21+	25

Employees in Client Firms

# Reporting	45
Min	2
Mean	1,841
Max	36,288
Total	82,879

	Incubators
1-15	5
16-30	6
31-45	4
46-60	2
61+	28

Number of Graduates

# Reporting	27
Min	2
Mean	71
Max	481
Total	1,923

	Incubators
1-3	1
4-6	3
7-10	3
10-13	2
14+	18

Employees in Graduated Firms (Jobs Created)

# Reporting	13
Min	29
Mean	1,540
Max	7,771
Total	20,020

	Incubators
1-15	0
16-30	2
31-45	0
46-60	1
61+	10

Years in Operation

# Reporting	87
Min	1
Mean	7
Max	24
Total	638

	Incubators
0-3	22
4-6	22
7-9	13
10+	30

Space (sq.m)

# Reporting	41
Min	100
Mean	28,276
Max	593,641
Total	1,159,350

	Incubators
1-1,000	15
1,001-10,000	19
10,001+	7

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Events

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Asia/Pacific

Highlights

India and Botswana Sign MOU for Development of MSMEs

Regional Snapshot

Regional Facilitator

Good Practices

Pre-Incubation Accelerated Business Coaching

Generating good clients for the VIT Technology Business Incubator

Case Studies

Asian Institute of Management and Ayala TBI Case Studies on Technology Entrepreneurship

Papers

PROMOTING INNOVATION THROUGH TECHNOPARKS IN KAZAKHSTAN

Slavo Radosevic and Marat Myrzakhmet

Success Stories

Compassion, Creativity & Collaboration: The Story of a Shanzhai Breathing Apparatus

A grass-root innovation story from China, reprinted from the Honeybee Newsletter Vol 20 – April – June 2009

Building Furniture Business Success: Arrows LTD, Kyrgyz Republic

Treasure Hunt in Agriculture Wastelands: Agribusiness Venture at TREC-STEP, India

GloTech Organics: Innovative Agribusiness Incubated at TREC-STEP, India

Vietnam Medical Software: CRC Topic Incubator Graduate Success

Tianjin Shengmiluo Trade Company: arts and crafts

A successful client incubated by the Tianjin Women's Incubator

Chaoyi online bookstore, incubated by Tianjin Women's Business incubator

Starting an innovative business to change fate - the words of a successful entrepreneur

Tianjin XixiuWenya Wedding Dress Rental Service Center incubated by Tianjin Women's Business Incubator

Utilizing IT technology as an information highway for China's enterprises

Tianjin Zhongke Network Technology Co. Ltd a succesful company incubated by Tianjin Women's Business Incubator

Sumivol Foods client company incubated at KIAsia in Thailand

Outsourcing to village based production centers at ROPE in India

Desicrew Back Office Services Incubated at TeNet India

Grassroots Innovation & Traditional Knowledge: Stories from the Field

TREC-STEP shares 8 success stories about its entrepreneurs in India

Featured Tools

Venture Incubation Package for Financial Management by TREC-STEP

Analysis

Good Practices

Presentations

Reports

Photos

Regional Workshop: Asia

Statistics

Type

Financial Model

Targets

Sectors

Services

Objectives

Number of Clients

Employees in Client Firms

Number of Graduates

Employees in Graduated Firms (Jobs Created)

Years in Operation

Space (sq.m)

Regional Networks

Network Members

Events