But what they nearly all share is that they provide coworking spaces that encourage collaboration and cross-fertilisation of ideas across a like-minded community, supported by advice from seasoned specialists. And they often specialise in specific sectors like healthcare, or technologies like Artificial Intelligence or robotics.
Many incubators are part of bigger organisations – universities, corporates, even governments – with an interest in commercialising innovation. To join an incubator, you don’t even need to have set up a company yet: you just need an idea with potential, and the drive to bring it to market. As their name suggests, these play a role when the startup idea is still very much in its infancy. So, what are these – and how do they differ? Incubators: germinating ideas – nourished by collaborationįirst, incubators. Two that you’ll hear mentioned most often are ‘incubators’ and ‘accelerators’. PwC UK’s Social Entrepreneurs Club enables ambitious social enterprises to tap into the skills of the firm’s people to support their growth.įor entrepreneurs starting out, there are many other sources of support and advice. For example, PwC Sweden supports the non-profit Norrsken Foundation, to help ‘impact entrepreneurs’ build businesses that help solve the biggest global problems, supported by mentoring from PwC Sweden.
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Give them the right environment and support, and they’ll flourish – developing and growing to reach their full potential - in many ways like a child.Īt PwC, we support many entrepreneurs and their ground-breaking ideas as they progress from initial concept to commercial reality.
Because, in many ways, ideas really are like children. I’ve always thought “brainchild” is a very appropriate term for an innovative idea.
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