Startup Program Design: A Practical Guide for Creating Accelerators and Incubators at Any Organization

OBJECTIVE: GROWTH

The previous chapters discussed how startup program models depend on the context of objectives, organization and target startups, and how post-graduation objectives require the creation of a long-term partnership between organization and startup that continues after the program. Next, we will analyze four cases in which post-graduation objectives are at play (Chapters 3–6). These are frequent objectives that a large organization—private or public—determines to pursue through startup engagement in any specific edition of a startup program.

This chapter will present startup programs that capitalize on startups that are ready, ...