Innovation Insights

Jan 30 New Infographic: Innovation Defining Our World 2019

Innovation now and then Back in December 2018, we shared that the majority of startups in the world work within Internet of Things, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health, and Gamification. In that order. We know this thanks to a survey of our extensive community ofmore than 1200 business incubators and accelerators from over 90 […]

Dec 18 The Year Ahead: 5 Tech Trends to Focus on in 2019

What will the world’s startups focus on? What kind of innovation is hot? The year 2018 will be remembered, in part, for the influence that corporations had on the innovation community in developing exciting technology. We wrote about this in our 2018 Year in Review– an analysis based on a corporate survey we released plus […]

Nov 28 2018 Year in Review: The Global Innovation Landscape –  of and by Corporations

The Corporate Challenge: How to gain and maintain competitive advantage? Our 2018 Year in Review looks back at the innovation landscape with a focus on corporations. After all, what types of innovation these players want; where they invest their resources; and what they ultimately bring to market, influences activities by business incubators and accelerators—and their […]

May 08 Best Practices 2018: How Business Incubators & Accelerators Should Adapt to Emerging Trends

Business incubation is growing rapidly, as you have witnessed yourself if you’ve read Case Studies 2018 recently published by UBI Global. Once primarily dependent on university or public funding, business incubators and accelerators are becoming more and more attractive to the corporate world. What is the attraction for big business? Innovative new programs like pre-accelerators, […]

May 05 UBI 5 top stories from the global incubation ecosystem – April 2017

Here are our editors pick for the top 5 incubation stories that left their mark in our ecosystem  – APRIL 2017 – Edward Mungai and the support for Kenyan incubators and accelerators Video on how UBI Global and Edward Mungai proudly support the growth of the #incubator and #accelerator ecosystem in #Kenya. Link: http://bit.ly/2kFJmVr UBI Global welcomes Chilean incubators to the World Benchmark […]

May 02 #WBS1718 – Highest represented countries.. so far

The UBI World Benchmark Study 2017 – 2018 (#WBS1718) is underway and we’ve now passed the halfway mark on the assessment period. UBI is amazed of the international turnaround! We are proud to share that so far 207 INCUBATORS and 138 ACCELERATORS, from 53 countries and representing 381 Universities, have applied to join the world’s most comprehensive benchmark […]