This study focusses on young entrepreneurs and considers the extent of business incubators’ impact on the development and visibility of projects headed by young people. To do so, we analyse incubators’ role as ecosystems for entrepreneurship in Spain based on the 2023 Funcas survey. First, we categorised incubators according to entrepreneurs’ age, defining young incubators as those in which most of the businesses are run by individuals under 35, excluding those over that age. We analyse variables that include the services offered and the frequency of events or training within the incubators to determine which approaches benefit or harm young entrepreneurs. This study uses a statistical approach, with quantitative data from the questionnaire as a starting point to characterise and identify young entrepreneurial profiles in business incubators. We develop and test two hypotheses using the chi-squared test, which is a non-parametric (distribution free) technique. Finally, we include a brief analysis of young entrepreneurs’ personality traits to shed light on some defining characteristics, concluding that personal initiative is a key feature amongst entrepreneurs under the age of 35. We conclude that the incubator system in Spain harms young entrepreneurs and propose some relevant recommendations to reverse this trend.

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培育年轻创业者：企业孵化器的作用


本研究重点关注年轻企业家，并考虑了企业孵化器对年轻人领导的项目的发展和知名度的影响程度。为此，我们根据 2023 年 Funcas 调查分析了孵化器作为西班牙创业生态系统的作用。首先，我们根据企业家的年龄对孵化器进行分类，将年轻孵化器定义为大多数企业由 35 岁以下的个人经营的孵化器，不包括 35 岁以上的个体。我们分析包括提供的服务以及孵化器内活动或培训的频率在内的变量，以确定哪些方法对年轻企业家有利或有害。本研究使用统计方法，以问卷中的定量数据为起点，来描述和识别企业孵化器中的年轻创业者概况。我们使用卡方检验开发和检验两个假设，卡方检验是一种非参数（无分布）技术。最后，我们对年轻企业家的性格特征进行了简要分析，以阐明一些定义特征，得出的结论是个人主动性是 35 岁以下企业家的一个关键特征。我们得出结论，西班牙的孵化器系统损害了年轻企业家，并提出了一些相关建议来扭转这一趋势。