Recent Development of Empirical Researches on Performance Evaluation of Business Incubators in China

Abstract

To promote empirical researches on performance evaluation of business incubators in China, this article systematically reviews related literature from 2010 to 2016. It is found from the review that (1) recent researches in this regard mainly focus on technology business incubators; (2) data envelopment analysis and mixed methods are gaining popularity; (3) performance evaluation criteria adopted, especially in the researches which do not employ data envelopment analysis, are quite inconsistent. As current researches pay main attention to national-level technology business incubators from the perspective of incubator itself, new researches should be carried out to other incubators and from other perspectives, such as incubatees and communities.