Corporate Business Incubators(CBIs) value co-creation with UBIs: A Meta-Model and Integrative Review Approach

This study as part of a postdoctoral research takes a critical look into Corporate business incubators (CBIs) value co-creation by adopting an integrative and meta-model approach. An integrative review aids the aggregation of studies fragmented with diverse views and perspective or approaches without a cogent agreeable framework; while meta-modelling aids the development of new models from an existing one. Based on paradigms with meta models from different perspectives and areas of studies (philosophical, entrepreneurial, psychological, innovation), this study aggregates them into a compounded framework of study for easier audience digest. Based on this, the study uses a multi-level analyses for the methodological synthesis of CBI value co-creation concepts capturing the holistic view based on CBIs classifications taxonomy and typology, scope and pathways based on CBI activities with an outlook on CBI Business Models. In addition to this, an emerging and captivating concept of cognitive schema of CBI actors is applied to the model capturing the attributes, relationships and CBI sub-schemas and their value co-creation outcomes based on response to environmental conditions and innate organizational capabilities. The study identifies three meta models which are based on CBIs core components and functions, CBIs Value Co￾creation and UBI (University Business Incubators), CBIs Core Business Models, Classifications and Value Co-creation and also addresses the complementarities towards a compounded CBI framework. The evolving model(s) would serve as the conceptual framework on which further CBIs co-creation research study with UBIs would be built.