Members of the Pecan Street consortia include the University of Texas, utility Austin Energy, Austin Technology Incubator, the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Environmental Defense Fund.

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The fourth-floor offices of technology incubator Ecompanies in Santa Monica, Calif. were decked out for Halloween with fake cobwebs, faux human limbs and a mini-graveyard of Styrofoam tombstones bearing executives' names.

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Isaac Barchas, director of the technology incubator at the University of Texas at Austin, says entrepreneurs looking to break into an untested or emerging market should consider taking a wait-and-see approach.

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The incubator insisted that Schwartz share the technology with the other companies.

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Tech incubator NaiLab is focused on helping information and communications technology entrepreneurs who want to start and scale their businesses in Kenya.

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Microsoft is expanding into China with a company-funded incubator program for outside developers to build products based on Kinect technology for a range of industries including health care and retail.

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