US Incubators

Project

US Incubators
Project Information
Has title	US Incubators
Has owner	Yi Ma
Has start date
Has deadline date
Has project status	Active
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Objective

The objective of this project is to assemble a near-population dataset on U.S. incubators! This project uses the Incubator Seed Data.

Progress

Extract incubator data from the following sources using regular expression

Source	Directions	How many?	Data	Benefits	Limitations
Whartoneclub Incubators	Opened source link. Copied results from "U.S. Based Incubators" into excel spreadsheet.	21	Name, City, State Url to home page of incubator	Links to the home page of incubator	May not be able to get specific information from home page. Limited list of incubators. Some organizations listed may not fall under our definition of an incubator (eg. Y Combinator)
InterNational Business Incubation Association or see our INBIA page	Opened source link Entered "United States" for country and clicked "Find Companies"	415	Company Name and address Link to another page within inbia on that page there is a link to the incubator's homepage	The database contains information on a lot of economic development institutions and would provide a mass quantity of data	Challenging for web crawler as link connects to another page within inbia and then link on that page connects to company's homepage. Not all of institutions listed are incubators. Out of the first ten links there were: 4 incubators, 2 educational programs, 1 broken link, 3 other economic development programs
Clustermapping	Opened Source Link	292	Company name with link to a separate page within cluster mapping on that page there is a link to the incubator's website	Provides a long list of entrepreneurship organizations	Often data is missing off of the separate page for the company, including the URL to the company's website. The description is often not detailed enough to determine the category for the economic organization without going to the company's website. Different types of entrepreneurship organizations are mixed together. Using the first 10 links, three were accelerators, six were missing links (two were self-proclaimed incubators in description), and one was another type of support organization.
The MBA Is Dead	Opened source link. Selected "Region" >> "US & Canada"	186 Results	Click on each accelerator/incubator to get data City and Country low equity, high offer, high value high equity, low offer, low value link to company homepage categories of companies it accelerates/incubates	Can search by region or by category of companies	Seems to be a lot of data on accelerators and fewer incubators included