Incubators have been around since the early 1980s as vehicles to help universities and research labs transfer technology to the commercial sector, or to help governments manufacture jobs in parts of cities where jobs had been chased away.

FORBES: Mad Hatchery Syndrome

Incubators have been around since the early 1980s as vehicles to help universities and research laboratories transfer technology to the commercial sector or to help governments manufacture jobs in parts of cities from which jobs had walked away.

FORBES: Mad Hatchery Syndrome