 Incubation
Essentials
Although all the books in the NBIA Bookstore are valuable
references, the following ones are essentials – books that
contain information so important to program success that they should
be on every incubator’s reference shelf. How many do you own?
A Comprehensive Guide to Business Incubation, Completely Revised
2nd Edition
 Editors:
Meredith Erlewine and Ellen Gerl
Publisher: NBIA Publications
Cover: paperback
NBIA published the original A Comprehensive Guide in 1996,
and it rapidly became the “must-have” reference for
business incubation professionals. This new and improved second
edition draws upon the collective wisdom of more than 200 incubation
professionals, many with over 20 years of experience. The book’s
four main sections and 71 chapters cover fundamentals of incubator
development, best practices in incubator management, working with
clients and special topics in business incubation. Whether you’re
new to the industry or think you’ve seen it all, this book
will introduce you to new people, new programs, and new ideas for
helping your incubation program achieve its full potential.
Catalog ID: 334
NBIA Member Price: $75.00
Nonmember Price: $95.00
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Developing a Business Incubation Program: Insights and Advice
for Communities
 Author:
Kathleen Boyd
Publisher: NBIA Publications
Cover: paperback
Incubators can help accomplish a variety of goals: creating jobs,
revitalizing neighborhoods, commercializing technologies. Developing
a Business Incubation Program, the first comprehensive discussion
of issues related to incubator development, can help you decide
if a business incubation program is right for your goals and your
community. With numerous sidebars, case studies and appendices —
including a glossary and list of federal funding sources for incubator
development —this book will help you make more informed decisions
about your incubator project. The book’s tips, advice and
examples also offer food for thought for existing programs.
Catalog ID: 351
NBIA Member Price: $65.00
Nonmember Price: $85.00
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Put It in Writing: Crafting Policies, Agreements, and Contracts
for Your Incubator
 Author:
Carol James
Publisher: NBIA Publications
Cover: spiral bound
Does your incubation program need to create or revise client documents?
Put It in Writing offers insights from incubator managers and
attorneys about developing formal documents that work for business
incubators. In addition to a thorough discussion of the many important
purposes served by formal documents, this publication includes more
than 65 samples from working incubation programs to help you craft
applications, leases, client handbooks, nondisclosure agreements
and more.
Catalog ID: 277
NBIA Member Price: $60.00
Nonmember Price: $80.00
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Incorporating Your Business Incubation Program:
How Tax Status and Business Entity Affect Operations
Author: Justin Boyd
Publisher: NBIA Publications
Cover: paperback
When creating and operating business incubation programs, incubator
developers and managers face many decisions and opportunities that
are directly affected by their tax status. This book provides incubator-specific
information about operating under various nonprofit and for-profit
classifications. Included is detailed information about applying
for 501(c)(3) tax status, the most difficult nonprofit designation
to receive. Incorporating Your Business Incubation Program
offers insights from incubator managers, tax experts and lawyers
to guide you in making tax-status decisions.
Catalog ID: 271
NBIA Member Price: $50.00
Nonmember Price: $65.00
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Self-Evaluation Workbook for Business Incubators
 Author:
Kathleen Cammarata
Publisher: NBIA Publications
Cover: spiral bound with CD-ROM
Because incubator policies, procedures and services can become
ineffective without periodic evaluation and fine-tuning, NBIA recommends
that business incubators perform comprehensive self-evaluations
once a year, carefully assessing everything from their mission statements
to their marketing plans. This workbook contains more than 300 evaluation
criteria to help pinpoint program strengths and weaknesses in 12
key areas; charts to help identify and document strategies for improvement;
and a CD-ROM with tools for facilitating a team approach to evaluating
incubation programs. The Self-Evaluation Workbook will
help you take a step back to confirm that your business incubator
is not only functioning well but also adapting to changing conditions.
Catalog ID: 322
NBIA Member Price: $65.00
Nonmember Price: $85.00
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Best Practices in Action: Guidelines for Implementing First-Class
Business Incubation Programs
 Authors:
Chuck Wolfe, Dinah Adkins and Hugh Sherman
Publisher: NBIA Publications
Cover: paperback
The most comprehensive report ever produced on incubation best
practices, this classic book describes model programs and practices
against which incubator managers and sponsors can test program performance.
The book’s 10 chapters describe key best practices and provide
examples of how they are implemented by model programs. Appendices
offer profiles of eight effective incubators from around the world,
as well as sample documents and additional advice. Best Practices
in Action is a valuable resource both for new incubators that
want to start off on the right track and for existing programs that
want to make sure they stay on it.
Catalog ID: 253
NBIA Member Price: $45.00
Nonmember Price: $60.00
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