The impact of business incubators on startups growth and survival: case of private incubators in Algeria

Abstract

Among the reasons why business incubators were adopted by the Algerian government was to decrease and minimize the failure percentages of new ventures and startups in the country, this research explores how private business incubators in Algeria can impact the survival and growth of a startup and therefore produce successful startups. This study adopted a qualitative method; where the data was collected through semi-structured interviews with seven incubator founders and seven of their incubatees, the collected data was analyzed by the deductive thematic analysis method. The results of this study indicate that private business incubators in Algeria use the previous experience of the team within the incubator and network, entrepreneurial support and accompaniment, credibility, financial resources, physical infrastructure and their incubation program, along with the entrepreneur's efforts and the entrepreneurial ecosystem to impact and increase the chances of survival of their incubatees.