The Sustainable Business Incubator

Over the past few weeks we’ve been discussing the reorganization of the Incubator program, under the independent nonprofit Center for Leadership in Sustainability. Though still affiliated with the Institute for Sustainable Enterprise at Fairleigh Dickinson University, this gives us greater freedom and flexibility to acquire and serve clients, to develop new businesses, and to integrate [...]

(Crossposted at http://greenventuresconference.org/?p=458)
We’ve just released our March Newsletter for the Sustainable Business Incubator, updating our growing network of colleagues and friends about the May Conference, and listing a number of related events leading up to it. Here’s an expanding version, with some of the materials we could not include in the PDF version, for those [...]

The Incubator’s July 18 “stakeholder meeting” was an outstanding success, with a wide spectrum of individuals from business, government, and academia coming together to offer ideas, suggestions, and support to the Incubator project. More details on this will follow, but the steering committee plans to move forward with a full feasibility study, with strategic partnerships [...]

Incubating_the_Incubator.pdf
The first venture that needs incubating is the Incubator itself.
A Comprehensive Guide to Business Incubation, published by the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) has a lot we need to know about creating a successful incubator – in 60 articles by different authors – providing a crash course in creating and sustaining an incubator. (This book, [...]

To the extent that the Sustainable Business Incubator is a virtual incubator, it really exists in the aggregation of ideas, resources, practices, and connections that we are able to assemble in cyberspace.
Parts of this – including the ISE and indeed the whole of FDU, and specifically the Library and the Madison Campus – are already [...]