UKBI is the membership association of organisations and professionals actively involved in enterprise, innovation and sustainable economic growth.
 

UKBI is the independent voice of business incubation and accelerated growth, influencing policy at local, national, European and international levels.
 

UKBI works with its members across a wide range of public and private sectors, supporting practitioners and stakeholders in the development of quality business growth environments in which their client businesses can succeed.
 

UKBI provides tangible benefits to its members, enhancing their ability to provide value added services to their clients.
 

UKBI plays a key role in promoting the development of sustainable growth of UK and international businesses and consequently benefitting society as a whole.
 

UK Business Incubation (UKBI) has been the UK’s and increasingly international principal and successful authority on business incubation, business incubation development and best practice since 1998.

 

Expertise

• Extensive knowledge and experience of business innovation, business development and business incubation processes
• Specific understanding of national and international good practice in business incubation, knowledge transfer, business creation and growth
• Substantial experience of policy development and delivery of programmes—working with national and regional government.
• Recognised by the UK Government as the representative organisation for business incubation in the UK
• Unrivalled access to the worlds leading experts in business incubation, innovation exploitation and entrepreneurship support.

 

We have directly supported more than 100 local authorities, all of the UKs Regional Development Agencies, over 150 business incubation environments and a large number of the countries leading universities and R&D bases. On top of that we advise multi-national agencies such as the World Bank and the European Commission, as well as national governments on policy and strategy.

 

Our Services

• Membership—join the worlds most diverse business incubation membership base, sharing knowledge, expertise and contacts across the globe
• Accreditation—policy makers and stakeholders make funding and strategy decisions based upon reviews against UKBI’s Business Incubation Development Framework. While Business Incubators develop their services and facilities with guidance from our Inspire Accreditation process.
• Good Practice—The Framework is utilised throughout the world to benchmark the feasibility and operations of environments in all sectors and client foci
• Training and Development—tailored and bespoke learning and knowledge exchange workshops, seminars and conferences enable you to stay at the top of your game, whilst also learning and connecting with experts across the globe
• Consultancy and Bespoke Advice—we are experts in feasibility, business and financial modelling, capacity reviews , mapping surveys and strategy