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

1.Extract incubator data from the following sources

• National Data

Source	Progress	How many?	Data
Whartoneclub Incubators	Done	21	URL, Company Name, City, State
InterNational Business Incubation Association or see our INBIA page	Done	415	Company Name and address
Clustermapping	Not Done	292	Company name with link to a separate page within cluster mapping on that page there is a link to the incubator's website
The MBA Is Dead	Not Done	186 Results	City and Country low equity, high offer, high value high equity, low offer, low value

• Regional Data

Source	Directions	How many?	Region	Data	Benefits	Limitations
Alabama Business Incubation Network	Opened source link and counted incubators listed on the home page	12	Alabama	Incubator Name, Brief Description, and a link to the home page	Reliable links that are filtered to include only incubators	only contains information on incubators in Alabama that are associated with NBIA
Florida Business Incubation Association	Opened source link and then opened links for each of the four regions in Florida	66	Florida	source link contains 4 links to the regions in Florida, each region contains incubator name, address, and a link to the home page	Provides reliable links. Filtered to include only information on incubators	May be challenging for a web crawler to navigate because it is separated by region. Only provides information about Florida incubators.
Louisiana Business Incubation Association	Opened source link. Copied the data on incubators into a text editor and search for how many times the word "E-Mail" appeared	28	Louisiana	incubator name contact name address and phone number link to website	data is filtered to include only incubators, links are reliable	only incubators in state of Louisiana, limited data set
Maryland Business Incubation Association	Opened source link and counted number of incubators listed on the page	35	Maryland	Main site contains incubator name, short description, and link to another page within main site with contains a link to the incubator home page	Reliable links, filtered to include only incubators	It would be challenging for a web crawler to navigate, as the main page contains links internal to the site which then link to the home pages of incubators. Limited dataset with only incubators in Maryland.
Massachusetts Association of Business Incubators	Open source link and count number of incubators listed on the page	20	Massachusetts	incubator name, short description, and link to incubator home page	reliable links, only data on incubators	limited dataset
Boston Startup Guide	Scrolled down to the section labeled "Startup incubators in Boston"	10	Boston	Company Name and URL Capital Provided & equity taken Application Process	reliable links	relatively unformatted data that would be challenging to use. Limited in scope
Michigan Business Innovation Association	Open source link and count number of incubators listed in the column next to the map	15	Michigan	incubator name, address, link to location on map, and link to incubator home page	reliable links, only data on incubators	limited dataset
NH Tech Alliance	Open source link and count organizations listed under "NHBIN Member Locations"	8	New Hampshire	incubator name, town within NH, brief description, and link to home page	reliable links only data on incubators	limited dataset, not very structured organization on website
NC Business Incubation Association	Open source link, click on each county and count the number of business incubators	32	North Carolina	Incubator name, address, program directors, and link	only data on incubators	limited dataset, hard to navigate site with web crawler, some of the incubators do not have links
Oklahoma Business Incubator Association	Open source link and count the number of incubators	29	Oklahoma	Incubator name and link to it	reliable links, only data on incubators	limited dataset
Incubators/Accelerators In DC	Open source link and count the number of incubators, I did not include co-working spaces	15	DC	Incubator name and link to it and brief description	reliable links, helpful description	limited dataset, mix of incubators and other organizations