We want them to incubate new ideas and be able to take them to market fast.
With the top-notch University of Wisconsin as its anchor, Madison is ideally positioned to incubate cutting-edge businesses.
People there have seen once-in-a-generation companies and they understand how to incubate them.
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The best-known example of this is Stanford, which helped to incubate Google, Yahoo!
Its purpose is to incubate single-product firms and sell them to a larger medical-device company to get the product through FDA approval.
Shanghai's leaders, ever eager to turn their estuary into China's silicon delta, have even sponsored an industrial park, hoping to incubate local talent.
As part of its outreach to budding entrepreneurs in China, Innovation Works is running a JumpStart program to incubate 10-15 teams for three months.
Perhaps it has indeed been less influential politically than, say, Commentary, the journal of the American Jewish Committee, which helped to incubate the creed of neoconservatism.
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Mind-wandering, often seen as daydreaming, allows the brain to incubate new approaches to familiar problems, serving "as a foundation for creative inspiration, " says the 2012 study in Psychological Science.
Zinoviev, 28, whose informal conversational style sounds almost American, went to work in 1995 at Delta Capital (formerly TUSRIF, a venture-capital fund set up by the U.S. Congress to incubate Russian businesses).
The others are a combination of national and sub-national initiatives across Latin America, Europe, and Asia, and all have one thing in common: they aim to incubate and incentivize solutions that suit their own local economies and philosophies.
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"Praetorian Group and Praetorian Labs are proud to incubate Connected To The Case, a great resource that allows the general public to participate and help public safety and first responders solve crimes every day, " said Alex Ford, CEO of Praetorian Group, the recognized digital platform leader in the Public Safety market with properties such as PoliceOne.com, FireRescue1.com and EMS1.com.
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Omar Hamoui, who founded Admob, which was acquired by Google, recently founded Churn Labs, to specifically incubate mobile app companies.
This facilitator could help channel team conflicts to productive ends such as seeking additional evidence to support a claim or incubate ideas to the point where they can be properly vetted.
We decided to take our participation a step further and conceive and incubate a venture in-house.
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