Describe the qualifications of the board and management team with specific reference to:

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  Number and affiliations/interests of the board members (academia, business, government, etc)

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  Relative autonomy of board from sponsoring organization and frequency of meetings each yearCOVID-19),

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  Names of sub- and advisory-committees to assist the board

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  Number and designations of management team members

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  Entrepreneurial experience, if any, of the incubator manager on running a business

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  Team’s experience in training or consultant services

Describe the types of support services provided by the management to its client ventures:

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  Counseling on business and financial management

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  Training on business plan preparation, entrepreneurship development, leadership

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  Networking with university faculty/students, private corporations, other service providers

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  Facilitation in securing funds for clients

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  Mentoring by board and other external specialists

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  Innovative practice, e.g. in-house seed capital fund, pre- & post-incubation, biz plan contests, etc

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  Service fee and rental arrangements

• 8

  Evaluation and monitoring of incubator and its clients

Indicate key statistics of successful incubation, such as:

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  Number of graduating clients in last year, and since start of operations

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  Numbers of present clients and affiliates being served outside incubator,

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  Anchor tenants and their role

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  Gross area in sq.m. of incubator and leasable area

• 5

  Were market feasibility analyses and business plan prepared before starting incubator

Describe the incubator’s results in relation to its development objectives, specially regarding:

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  Numbers of jobs created in incubator and by graduating businesses

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  Patents taken by clients, joint-ventures formed

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  Estimated personal and corporate taxes paid by incubator clients

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  Satisfaction of the stakeholders and community for the incubators performance

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  Obstacles that may have been overcome to achieve the good results

Provide recent information on the incubator’s finances, such as:

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  Sources of revenue as well as of any external subsidy, with percentage of each in total

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  Main items of expenditure, incl. depreciation if provided

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  Prospects of financial self-sustainability, if sustainability is an objective

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  Innovative ways of enhancing revenue, cutting expenses

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  How was initial cost of establishing the incubator financed

Provide two case studies of accomplishments of the incubator, for example:

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  Describe an innovation introduced to the market based on the incubator management’s support, the precise role of the management/board in this success,

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  Major award won by a client based on the incubator’s efforts

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  Venture capital attracted by a client