Stakeholder Interests in the Support Landscape of for profit Incubators

Incubators have become an important factor in the national economy, especially in recent years, and are thus also drivers of economic recovery (BMWi 2018, p. 26). The use of different resources, whether monetary, intellectual or material, can lead to disproportionate success, because startups with digital and highly scalable business models are often found in incubators. These require an optimal support landscape within the incubators, which is created by the various stakeholders, each with their own interests. The interests of the stakeholders, which also include the startups themselves, result in their goals. The degree to which goals can be achieved is limited by the availability of various resources or factors such as time, money and infrastructure. This creates conflicts of interest among the various stakeholders. Therefore, it is important that in the first step the interests of the key stakeholders overlap as much as possible. So that synergies can be used among each other. In this way, success can be fundamentally guaranteed for all stakeholders involved.