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=Evaluation of Sources from INIBIA List of US Accelerator Associations=
The National Business Incubation Association maintains a list of [https://inbia.org/services/resources/ U.S. Incubation Associations]. We went through this list and evaluated each association as a potential data source. These sites generally contain a list of incubators that are working in collaboration with the NBIA and are within that specific state. The sites could be useful in cross-referencing data pulled from the NBIA main database as some of the incubators listed on the state specific websites are not in the main NBIA database.
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==Source: |-| [http://asbdc.org/start-ups/incubators-in-alabama/ Alabama Business Incubation Network]==# | Opened source link# Counted and counted incubators listed on the home page and found information for | 12 incubators# Data| Alabama:* | Incubator Name, Brief Description, and a link to the home page'''Review'''* Provides reliable | Reliable links to incubators within Alabama* Benefit: data is that are filtered to include only incubators* Limitation: | only contains information on incubators within in Alabamathat are associated with NBIA|-==Source: | [http://www.fbiaonline.org/Incubators/incubators.htm Florida Business Incubation Association (FBIA)==]# | Opened source link# Opened and then opened links for each of the four regions in Florida# Counted incubators listed in each of the four regions to get information on | 66 incubators# Data| Florida:* main site | source link contains 4 links to four the regions in Florida, each region contains the following data:::* incubator name, address, phone number and a link to the home page'''Review'''* | Provides reliable links to incubators within Florida* Benefit: data is filtered . Filtered to include only information on incubators* Limitation: may | May be challenging for a web crawler to navigate, as main page has links to regions which has links to home pages of because it is separated by region. Only provides information about Florida incubators .* Limitation: only incubators within Florida|-==Source: | [https://www.louisianaincubation.org/current-members Louisiana Business Incubation Association==]# | Opened source link# . Copied the data on incubators into a text editor and searched search for how many times the word "E-Mail" appeared# Site contained data on | 28 incubators in the state of | Louisiana# Data| :* Main site contains :* incubator name:* contact name:* address and phone number:* link to website'''Review'''* Provides reliable links to incubators within Louisiana* Benefit: | data is filtered to include only incubators* Limitation: may be challenging for a web crawler to navigate, as main page does not contain information on incubator but rather has links to home pages of incubators are reliable* Limitation: | only incubators within in state of Louisiana, limited data set|-==Source: | [http://incubatemaryland.org/incubators/ Maryland Business Incubation Association==]# | Opened source link# Counted and counted number of incubators listed on the page and found information on | 35 incubators# Data| Maryland:* | Main site contains incubator name, short description , and link to another page within main site read more which with contains:::* a link to incubate the incubator home page'''Review'''* Provides reliable | Reliable links to incubators within Maryland* Benefit: data is , filtered to include only incubators* Limitation: may | 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* Limitation: . Limited dataset with only incubators within in Maryland.==Source: |-| [https://www.massincubators.org/ Massachusetts Association of Business Incubators==]# Opened | Open source link# Counted and count number of incubators listed on the page and found information on | 20 incubators# Data| Massachusetts:* Main site contains | incubator name, short description , and link to the incubator's home page'''Review'''* Provides | reliable links to , only data on incubators within Massachusetts* Benefit: data is filtered to include only incubators| limited dataset* Limitation: only incubators within Massachusetts|}
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