THE IMPACT OF THE INCUBATORS’ ROLE ON THE FIRM’S DEVELOPMENT IN THE BIOTECHNOLOGICAL SECTOR. AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PIEDMONT REALITY

The development of the innovative activities in Italy is characterized by a limited presence of start up, if compared to what has been happening abroad. This fact, combined to the strong European request of reducing the entrepreneurial risk and the major attention to what is called “life science”, has started off biotechnological clusters. Moreover, in these latest years, the tendency has been to promote the international relations to favor the territorial technological development. The aim of our empirical research is to analyze the structure of the Turin (Piedmont Region) biotechnological cluster, in which the ideas’ and firms’ Incubators have a decisive role in terms of start up’s promotion, raise, development and technological and knowledge transfer between the academic reality and the entrepreneurial one. Besides, we also want to analyze how the Incubators can be fundamental in order to attract capitals, both private funds and public ones.