THE IMPACT OF SELECTED SERVICES OF CROATIAN BUSINESS INCUBATORS ON THEIR PERFORMANCE

Poduzetnički inkubatori ubrajaju se u poduzetničke potporne institucije koji imaju za cilj pružiti podršku malim i srednjim poduzećima, posebice poduzetnicima početnicima. Njihovo osnivanje najčešće je rezultat inicijativa lokalne i regionalne razine te su po pravnome obliku uspostavljeni kao poduzeća u vlasništvu jedinica lokalne i područne (regionalne) samouprave. S obzirom na rasprostranjenost inkubatora i njihove uloge u gospodarskom razvoju, važno je istražiti uspješnost inkubatora u obavljanju osnovnih zadaća te ispunjavaju li ciljeve zbog kojih su osnovani. Poduzetnički inkubatori svojim poduzećima stanarima nude razne usluge, kao što su: usluge subvencioniranog najma poslovnog prostora, usluge poslovnog savjetovanja, usluge umrežavanja i olakšavanja pristupa izvorima financiranja, te se pokazalo kako su usluge koje inkubatori pružaju pozitivno povezane s uspješnošću inkubatora. Stoga, cilj ovog rada je pomoću višestruke hijerarhijske regresije te Spearmanovog koeficijenta korelacije ranga ocijeniti utjecaj odabranih usluga na uspješnost poslovnih inkubatora u Republici Hrvatskoj. Rezultati potvrđuju povezanost većine usluga s uspješnošću, međutim pozitivan utjecaj na uspješnost imaju isključivo financijske usluge, te usluge umrežavanja.Business incubators are business support institutions that aim to provide support to small and medium-sized enterprises, especially to start-ups. Most often they are formed as the result of the initiatives at the local and regional level, and established as companies which are owned by the local and regional government bodies. Given the prevalence of incubators and their role in economic development, it is important to investigate the performance of incubators in performing their tasks and whether they meet the main objectives for which they were initially established. Business incubators offer various services to their tenant companies, such as: subsidized rent for office space, business consulting services, networking services, and facilitating access to funding sources, where it has been determined that these services are positively related to the performance of the business incubators. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of selected services on the performance of business incubators in the Republic of Croatia by using multiple hierarchical regression analysis and Spearman\u27s rank correlation coefficient. The results confirm the positive correlation for most of the services with performance, however, only financial services and networking services have a direct positive effect on the performance