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History of incubators

Business incubators are an important part of the support infrastructure of SMEs in the world. The first business incubation activities were carried out in the USA and Western Europe. 

 

Advantages for entrepreneurs

Incubators are established and their services are provided with the aim to facilitate the start-up phase of an entrepreneur, to support dynamic development of incubated companies, and to help them to overcome initial problems connected with starting-up. Thus an entrepreneur can not only take advantage of rent conditions (premises at discounted rates) but he can also gain an additional support and special services so that the risk of bancrupcy of his company within the first three years of its existe

Events

The initial general meeting of the association of legal entities with the name Slovak Association of Business and Technological Incubators (SABTI) took place on February 19, 2008 at the premises of National Agency for Development of Small and Medium Enterprises in Bratislava (NADSME).  The SABTI founders are eleven business and technological incubators from different Slovakian regions. Valentin Magdolen, the head of Incubator in Malacky, was elected the chairman o