Armanu Thoyib

Designing Business Incubator Model for Start-up Digital

Business incubator is a company or institution which provide a program that designed to nurture and accelerate start-up business success. Start-up business is a newly build or developed company that later called as incubate. In this research, start-up company specify on start-up digital that mostly accessible through mobile or desktop platform trough application. The purposes of this research are to define the components in every stage required in business incubator that consist of pre-incubation, mid-incubation and post-incubation. There are three results focus 1) Pre-incubation stages refers to defining the sourcing, business idea development and business plan of a business incubator; 2) Mid-incubation stages consist of evaluation and benchmarking process, 3) Post-incubation stages stressing on the value creation phase of a business incubator. This qualitative research concludes that the core process in business incubator is not similar towards each other, even though there are minimum requirement that must be fulfilled for a decent quality business incubator. A good business incubator for start-up digital is an incubator that 1) provide preparation procedures (before-during-after) to accelerate a start-up business 2) design incubation model and 3) create value related to regulation, market dynamic, macro-environment and related factors.