@thesis{Aschka2024, author = {Aschka, Maximilian}, title = {How do incubators position themselves within the Triple Helix Model}, subtitle = {Systemizing European incubator landscape and discussing implications for the local German incubator brigk}, publisher = {Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt}, address = {Ingolstadt}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-48387}, pages = {IX, 50}, year = {2024}, abstract = {Abstract In the early stages, entrepreneurs encounter significant challenges and extreme uncertainty when founding a young innovative venture. In response to this, a spectrum of wide support mechanisms are available. Typically facilitated not in isolation, but rather through collaborative efforts involving multiple institutions within a startup ecosystem. An exemplary theoretical framework delineating auspicious collaborative efforts among multiple institutions to foster innovation, is the Triple Helix model. The primary objective of this thesis is therefore to analyze the positioning of European top incubator landscape within the Triple Helix Model and the support offers for startups resulting from the cooperation between incubator and a subsystem. Ultimately, implications for the local German incubator brigk should be described. In doing so, the conducted study employed a qualitative data analysis, leveraging 100 datasets within the data analysis software ATLAS.ti. By crawling the "About us" pages on incubators' websites, the methodology involved first-level paragraph coding based on the Triple Helix Model's subsystems. Subsequently, second-level codes were assigned following a consistent schema that highlighted the kind of collaboration. The final step involved the clustering of similar second-level codes, providing a nuanced understanding of the dimensional interaction between incubators and other institutions. The results show that cooperation's between the analyzed incubators and the three subsystems of the Triple Helix Model do exist. Besides the pronounced frequency of cooperation with the Economic Subsystem, the role reversal revealed by the analysis is a particularly interesting finding in this thesis. It shows that incubators themselves often take on the role of a subsystem to drive innovation. Looking at the results of this work in a broader context, it could represent a benchmark for individual institutions within Europe, improving their cooperation's with the players of the three subsystems. And in the long run, enhancing their offering and support to young innovative companies.}, language = {en} }