A multicriteria model to assessing the contribution of the technology-based incubator in the generation of innovative entrepreneurship

Abstract

The technology-based incubator plays a unique role in fostering innovative entrepreneurship, a phenomenon considered crucial in the intensive search for economic and social countries development. However, the actual contribution that this mechanism plays to innovative entrepreneurship is unknown, given the lack of models that perform such evaluation. Therefore, this research proposes the construction of a multicriteria assessment model for contribution of technology-based incubator of innovative entrepreneurship generation. The Multicriteria Support Decision - Constructivist (MCSD-C) methodology was used as an instrument of intervention. This case study takes a constructivist view of knowledge and has an exploratory nature. The data source is primary or secondary in nature and the methodological approach can be classified as qualitative and quantitative. Results evidenced that the Multicriteria methodology has proven to be consistent when provides knowledge about the construction of an evaluation model which considers incubated companies as a unique mechanism in promoting innovative entrepreneurship. In addition, it provides an instrument which allows the management of the process of innovative entrepreneurship and turns efforts into improvements performance activities.