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Assessing the Value Added by Incubators for Innovative Small and Medium Enterprises in Russia
This chapter is to evaluate the effectiveness and value added created in the regional innovation systems actors of innovation. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the activities of the resident business incubators and technology parks of high-tech SME companies (SME) in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The present study is the development of the concept Mian, which is devoted to assessing the added value created by high-tech companies and the incubation system is an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of the infrastructure of business incubators and industrial parks of SMEs in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia. The present study is based on a study of 94 companies that are located in the Nizhny Novgorod region on and off the areas of business incubators and technoparks.