The Reality Of Business Incubators And Their Role In Supporting Small Projects With Young People In The Gaza Strip

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the reality of business incubators in the Gaza Strip, and to identify the role they play in supporting small enterprises through the provision of many services that you need. The researcher used descriptive analytical method, and adopted the resolution and the interview as a tool to collect the required data, and study sample consists of institutions working in the field of business incubators and the coordinators of officials and business incubators in the Gaza Strip. The sample was selected from these institutions numbered five institutions which are as the following CHF, Mercy World of Kuwait, the Islamic University in Gaza City, Gaza PICTI, Enterpad. The number of officials involved in this study is (23) of managers and coordinators of the projects and incubators. According to information obtained by the specialized persons in those institutions. The researcher analyzed the output resolution, view, and statistically processed using the mediation statistical averages and percentages.

The study showed: that there is no incubators for projects in the Gaza Strip, except business incubator and technology which is in the Islamic University and an incubator PICTI which is starting its work. Furthermore, small projects in Gaza suffer from many problems that can cause a failure at the beginning of their start. Incubators go on according to a mechanism which isn't than scientific, and services provided by business incubators are low and do not work to support the project significantly, and this is due to lack of experience in this area and low possibilities available to it.

In light of these findings the researcher recommended that: the need to establish incubators for projects in Gaza Strip and the need for a cooperation between the Islamic university with the University College for establishing a business incubator at the University College to ensure the integrity of experience, money and effort and thus ensure the projects and the need to pursue the beneficiaries of incubators after they finish their projects, and to try to help them to promote their work even for a period of limited time, and to focus on providing more financial services and marketing for its importance to the projects, whether during the incubation period or after, and the need to take advantage of past experience to set up incubators in developed countries and to consider this as part of the technological and economic cooperation with those countries. She also recommended the need to emphasize the importance for the small incubated project to integrate and to enter into partnerships with each other.