AABI Association Members
AABI association member is “an association that organizes business incubation resources and facilities
in a given economy” of Asia-Pacific region.
Till 2023, AABI has 26 Association Members which cover 19 countries and regions.
Founded in 1988, Shanghai Technology Innovation Center (STIC) is a governmental innovation agency affiliated to Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality. STIC is responsible for a series of tech-SMEs policy implementation as well as technology transfer networking and incubation coordinating. STIC has played as the supporting organization of STBIA (Shanghai Technology Business Incubation Association), the leading organization of Shanghai IBI (International Business Incubator), the secretariat of Incubation Network in East China, and the founding member & the secretariat of AABI (Asian Association of Business Incubation). (http://www.shtic.com/)
The CBIA（Chinese Business Incubation Association）was founded in October 1997 with the purpose of "promoting the operational effectiveness of incubation centers, promoting the exchange of experience and resource sharing among incubator centers", and hopes to assist in the establishment of optimized and innovative incubator management and business model through positive interactions, to promote the development of the Taiwan incubation centers into an entrepreneurial counseling institution with its own characteristics. On the other hand, CBIA also plays the key role of promoting innovation and entrepreneurship incubators in Taiwan, actively participates in the activities of various international organizations (eg. InBIA, EBN and AABI); maintains good interactions and relationships with relevant incubators in the Americas, Europe and Asia countries and also acts as an excellent bridge role to assist Taiwan SMEs to move towards international development. (http://www.cbia.org.tw)
Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) has for 20 continuous years committed to building up Hong Kong as an international innovation and technology hub to propel success for local and global pioneers today and tomorrow. HKSTP has established a thriving I&T ecosystem that is home to three unicorns and Hong Kong’s leading R&D hub with over 11,000 research professionals and over 1,000 technology companies focused on healthtech, AI and robotics, fintech and smart city technologies.
Established in 2001, we attract and nurture talent, accelerate and commercialise innovation and technology for entrepreneurs on their journey of growth in Hong Kong, to the Greater Bay Area, Asia and beyond. Our growing innovation ecosystem is built around our key locations of the Hong Kong Science Park in Shatin, InnoCentre in Kowloon Tong and three modern INNOPARKs in Tai Po, Tseung Kwan O and Yuen Long. The three INNOPARKs are realizing a vision of re-industrialisation for Hong Kong. The goal is sectors like advanced manufacturing, electronics and biotechnology are being reimagined for a new generation of industry.
Through our infrastructure, services, expertise and network of partnerships, HKSTP will help establish innovation and technology as a pillar of growth for Hong Kong, while reinforcing Hong Kong’s international I&T hub status as a launchpad for global growth at the heart of the GBA innovation powerhouse. (https://www.hkstp.org/)
ISBA was started in 2004 by a passionate team of professionals from Science & Technology Entrepreneur Parks (STEP) and Technology Business Incubators (TBI). Today it has grown to a membership base of 125+ incubators that are into entrepreneurship development custom writing here and incubation. ISBA’s main objective is “To promote business incubation activities in the country through exchange of information, sharing of experience, and other networking assistance among Indian Business Incubators (TBIs), Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Parks (STEPs) and other related organizations engaged in the promotion of start-up enterprises.” ISBA is the only pan India network of Business Incubators and has an abundance of expertise and knowledge base in technology business Incubation that has been acquired over a period of 25 years. A unique feature is its diversity, with member organisations coming from Academic Institutions / Universities of repute, Research & Development organisations and Technology Parks. Further, virtually every emerging technology sector are addressed beginning with ICT and covering Life Sciences, Electronics, Design, Agri-Business, Manufacturing, Textiles etc. by the Incubator members. (https://isba.in/)
AIBI was founded at Solo, Central Java in 1996 by ten persons: 6 directors of business incubators and 4 others were individuals from private sectors interested in the business incubator development in Indonesia. Dr Hadi K Purwadaria was one of the 10 founders. He is the only founder who is currently still involved in AIBI and the national development of business incubators in Indonesia. He has been closely involved in all aspects of the AIBI management even though his position is Commission International.
AIBI members grew from only six in 1996 to over than 140 in 2022 covering the whole provinces of Indonesia from the western part of Aceh to the eastern part of Papua. Only four out of 34 provinces in Indonesia do not have a business incubator one province each from islands outside Java: Sumatera, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Maluku.
Most of business incubators are founded by state and private universities, but some significant incubators and accelerators are also established by the state public company, private sectors, and regional governments. The business incubators provide a broad range of services from the rented production spaces, consultation in business, assistance in technology implementation, facilitation to financial institutions, access to market, help in legal administration processes including and not limited to IP, IPO, branding, Food Regulations, Halal /Certificate, National Standard for Manufactured Products and Machineries, and broadening the network both domestic and global.
AIBI led the members to be exposed to the international forum of business incubators such as AABI, infoDev World Bank, and APIN. As a representative of AIBI, Dr Hadi coordinated an ASEAN Program to establish and launch the ABINet (ASEAN Business Incubator Network) in 2012-2013, and again for the two-year ABINet program in 2018-2020 to provide its 30 members around ASEAN countries with the implementation of best incubation model practices, annual meetings, business matching for startups with global investors, and co-incubation for startups who want to extend their market cross border.
Nationally, AIBI lobbies the government to strengthen the members’ capacity building and to provide seed money to selected based technology startups who are tenants of the business incubators. AIBI has been working closely with some ministries such as the Min of Cooperatives and SMEs, Min. Education & Culture, Min. Research Technology and Higher Education, and with Coordinating Minister for Economics in developing Roadmap for Business Incubators and STP from 2013-2024. AIBI also helped in the development of the national accreditation system for the business incubators in Indonesia, and lately the national certification for the business incubator management staff. (https://aibinetwork.com)
CRSED (Center of Research for Small Enterprise Development) is a research center started by Prof. Cham Tao Soon in 2003.The center focuses on supporting research and investigation studies on SMEs. The center welcomes proposals of innovative studies on SMEs from all institutions of higher education and approved proposals will be supported with funding.
Among the three main points of start-up, education, childcare, and investment, the childcare work that started first in Korea is We, KOBIA, have grown into a key institution for important start-up support that includes all three items.
Our association was established in March 2000, when the startup ecosystem was weak, and nurtured more than 40,000 technology startups. Among them, 80 listed companies contributed to the development of start-up companies.
Currently, 261 business incubation centers (BI) across the country are incubating 6,500 technology startups. It is the most important major base institution in the era of the 4th industrial revolution, with more than 20,000 members, including the head of each center and the managers of each center and the executives and employees of each 6,500 companies.
In addition to the start-up incubation business, we are supporting technology start-ups through various projects such as BI support projects (BI childcare competency reinforcement project, BI establishment and operation support project, business incubation specialist competency enhancement project, and BI network project).
In addition, as the senior vice president of the Asian Business Incubation Association (AABI), we share our know-how with many Asian countries and serve as a stepping stone for our centers and companies to enter the market smoothly. (https://www.kobia.or.kr)
Currently, there are more than 80 Business Incubators located in both Public and Private Organizations in Thailand. For the strong collaboration among 3 government agencies under 3 different ministers - the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), the Office of the Higher Education Commission (OHEC) and the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion (OSMEP) to be most efficient, they have jointly signed the MOU on 16 November 2008 to establish the Thai Business Incubators and Science Parks Association (THAI-BISPA) which officially started their operation on 16 January 2009. Thai-BISPA is a non-profit organization initially comprised of Business Incubators and Science Parks in Thailand. The association is served as a focal point of collaboration, business networking and linkage, knowledge sharing, and capacity development and strengthening for business incubator centers and Science Parks operations in Thailand.
Thai-BISPA is an ecosystem integrator. We play an important role in strengthening the management of business incubators and science parks and teams, building infrastructure and supporting mechanism for them to excel such as platforms, networks, knowledge sharing, and also supporting Thai government on studying and providing inputs for policy making. As we are the innovation intermediaries who play a crucial role in the national innovation ecosystem, Business Incubators must ensure that the development benefits of STI translate directly into the daily lives of people all over the country and can be valuable to the world. (https://www.thaibispa.or.th)