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Identifying the effect of tech incubators on startups

IGL Grant Funded Trials

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Is there an effect of incubator spaces on the survival of startups and their economic performance? And if so, why?

Working with one of the largest tech incubators in the UK, this project sought to deploy a multi-site RCT in two different cities. The experiment was intended to explore post-treatment outcomes including survival, recombination, and changes in post-treatment revenue, employment and level of external finance raised. 

Key facts

Stage: Discontinued
Location: UK

Project team

Team

  • Max Nathan

    Deputy Director What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth
    LSE, NIESR
  • Henry Overman

    Professor
    London School of Economics
  • Olmo Silva

    Associate Professor
    London School of Economics