What is Incubatees

Academic business incubators (ABI) are an important tool to support entrepreneurship awareness among higher education institutions communities, as well as to promote new and high-value companies' creation by fostering regional competitiveness. The present chapter aims to explore a Portuguese ABI implementation and development process, attending identified success critical factors on previews literature and analyzing the incubator processes and some incubatees' statements. In addition, and in line with a no “fit all” incubation practices, it draws some possible strategies that can be followed by other institutions with similar implementations and presents some results linked to the way dissemination is made and support is provided.