Abstract
Business incubators could be classified into three types as Public-for nonprofit-incubator, Private-for nonprofit-incubator, and Private-for profit-incubator. Otherwise, networking activities of business incubator include internal activities which refer networking activities between incubator manager and tenant or between tenants, and external activities which refer networking activities among incubator and external institutions in regional eco-system. Based on network theory, this paper analyses the cases of three incubator types in Shenzhen, China, and make it clear what are differences of internal networking activities and external networking activities among the three incubator types. We found that the Private-for profit incubator is most effective at networking activities than other two types and the Private-for nonprofit incubator is more flexible about external networking activities.
