Business Incubation and Innovation Speed: Mediating Role of Absorptive Capacity

. Incubator firms vigorously have pursued opportunities for profitability and growth through business incubators However, research evidence of the quantifiable benefits of business incubation services has been contradictory This paper examined a critical performance criterion for the incubator startups, namely their innovation speed. Innovation speed, also called speed to market, represents the time elapsed between innovative ideation and the final market launch of the innovation Although innovation speed is a significant performance criterion for incubator firms, little empirical research has