An Investigation into Start-up Incubation Challenges during COVID-19

This report investigates the challenges faced by start-ups and entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the incubation and acceleration processes. It analyzes the role of incubation and acceleration, evaluates the major challenges encountered during the pandemic, and determines strategies for new entrepreneurs to grow after the COVID-19 impact. The research employs an interpretive approach, utilizing secondary data sources such as online data, books, and newspapers. Key challenges identified include policy responses, financial fragilities, and the need for digital adaptation. The report also explores strategies such as enhanced social media marketing and the development of digital skills to overcome these challenges. The research methodology involves qualitative data analysis and ethical considerations to ensure data protection and privacy. Desklib provides access to similar past papers and solved assignments for students.

Research Methods
1

Table of Contents
Topic: An investigation into the challenges on incubation and acceleration processes for start-ups
and entrepreneurs during COVID-19...............................................................................................3
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................3
Research rationale............................................................................................................................3
Project aim and Objectives..............................................................................................................3
Literature review .............................................................................................................................4
Intended Methodology ....................................................................................................................6
Resources Required and Action Plan...............................................................................................7
References .......................................................................................................................................9
2

Topic: An investigation into the challenges on incubation and acceleration
processes for start-ups and entrepreneurs during COVID-19.
Introduction
Start-ups and many entrepreneur have emerged the different key drivers and make
effective economic growth and make different job creation within the environment. But after the
impact of covid-19, start-ups play a critical role for the growth of economies and work as per the
young and effective firms. Some innovative young and major problems are related to work and
make some fast and effective growth to the covid-19 pandemic. These start-ups and many new
entrepreneur are able to shift the countries towards fully digital work, education, health services
and provided innovation are helpful for the growth to work in effective goods and services. But
there are different challenges face by them like policy response, aimed at shielding economy and
many other financial fragilities (Ghina and Sinaryanti, 2021). This report include the major
problems face while working on incubation and acceleration process for the use of starts-ups and
entrepreneur causes covid-19. On the basis of Aldi store in London as this is the new way to start
the concept and make new starts-ups for the growth of company.
Research rationale
The main reason for choosing this topic is, make a research and try to analyse the major
challenges which are face by the companies who start their new ventures at online or offline.
This may be related to major reason like incubation and acceleration process and their impact on
the entrepreneur may get the high loss for the economy. So this study is conducted as with the
help of this research, a secondary research will be going to produced and work on the major
sector of incubation and acceleration process. Covid-19 is not only make the challenges for
existing starts-ups but also for the creation and innovation of new one (Grenie and Oiry, 2021).
All is related to work and make changes to analyse the growth and make different activities and
observed on the basis of great recession. All of these are related to work on the major studies and
evaluate in detailed for the growth of firm in an authenticate manner.
Project aim and Objectives
Aim: “To study on different challenges face by the start-ups entrepreneurs during covid-
19 while working on incubation and acceleration processes. A case study on Aldi, London.”
3

Objectives:
 To analyse the role of incubation and acceleration process for start-ups and entrepreneur.
 To evaluate the major challenges on incubation and acceleration process face by the start-
ups and entrepreneur during the phase of covid-19.
 To determine different strategies for the new entrepreneur for grow up after the covid-19
impact.
Literature review
To analyse the role of incubation and acceleration process for start-ups and entrepreneur
As per the view of Marwah and Madhvan, (2021); the starts-ups incubation and
acceleration are designed to the help of new starts-ups. As these help the problem of new starts-
ups and enter' which are related to run the business activities and make some suitable changes to
analyse the concept to grow as per the need. The use of starts-ups incubator make a collaborative
program to work and make helpful strategies to work and make growth in workspace, seed
funding and make effective training for the use to grow their business activities. It would be
related to work and make significant changes to analyse effective techniques and manage growth
to make nomenclature and work for the growth of ambiguity to work and make actual values
their labelling and use of organisation structure in UK (Jones and et.al., 2021). The respected
company make their own roles for the different role and responsibilities of incubator and make
suitable changes to analyse outcome and work for the growth to make access to industry,
interaction and make different aspect to most important to make capital to work on the survival
stages. There are different changes for make significant aspect and work on majority success and
make incubator in order to involve different structure and growth to work as effective growth
(An insider’s view of the role of an incubator, 2021). All is related to manage appropriate aspect
and make acceleration to perform high competitive environment and make sure to manage
activities to work on significant aspect and make global combinator to make different aspect.
But at the same time, different starts-ups begin to work with incubators but due to covid-
19, most of the companies are not able to manage different sources and make mentorship to work
and manage industry experts to work and manage funding (Maurer and Nagel, 2021). These
actually provide a support to the company and make growth in analysing inspective changes and
work for the growth and make sponsorship by different means of transport. These incubation
provide a relevant support and manage the authenticate data to work and make a support in the
4

early stage of enterprise. All is related to make growth and provide sufficient changes in an
authenticate manner and adding up the values for the growth of business activities.
To evaluate the major challenges on incubation and acceleration process face by the start-ups and
entrepreneur during the phase of covid-19
As per the view of Calvino, (2021); there are different challenges are face by the
company due to effective growth and major changes during the outbreak of covid-19. The major
crises are related to reducing impact and make effective starts-ups to analyse the major
challenges and limit the sources during the growth time of the company. As per the article, there
are different short-terms and long term challenges which help the company to work and make
effective growth in order to manage sources and make new business opportunities. After facing
the impact on major challenges due to covid-19 (Osmani and Beloucif, 2021). As there are
different vulnerable changes than others to work and make shock brought and manage the
pandemic to analyse effective sources to engage major activities and work as per the significant
growth and high risk activities to analyse effective traditional funding and make a report to
manage a relationship to work and make significant changes. All is related to analyse different
sources and make demand to work financially changes and make support for short-terms
liquidity and make critical approaches to analyse different issues faces by the new entrepreneur
changes.
There are different changes and make significant growth to make uncertainty with
revenue and make containment to provide relevant support and make starts-ups for the
inefficiency in financially nature and make support to their SME's task (Pocek, Politis and
Gabrielsson, 2021). All is related to work and make changes and need their short term liquidity
needs for their own survival. In most of the countries like UK, the major challenge is related to
policies change and financially fragilities to he declining growth to make loan guarantees with
direct lending and make changes to more specifically to focused on the starts-ups. All is related
to work and make changes and work to analyse effective funding rounds (Start-ups in the time of
COVID-19: Facing the challenges, seizing the opportunities, 2021). Further, the UK government
announced to make co-financing fund and make innovative companies to face the difficulties and
work on the major financial difficulties related to the report of different concept and make
changes.
To determine different strategies for the new entrepreneur for grow up after the covid-19 impact
5

As per the view of Fallon, (2021); there are many digital challenges and make suitable
activities to work and make growth to analyse different challenges and make social media to
make more marketing efforts. With the help of incubation and acceleration the growth of new
starts-ups and entrepreneur are change and steadily help in managing and growing aspect of the
company. All of these are helpful for the growth to manage suitable changes and work as per the
progressive growth to need different aspect of time and make effective growth. All is related to
work and make significant growth in order to prioritize the aspect and make changes for the
overall growth and activities to manage the outcome and make suitable changes and analyse the
digital skills in more effective and appropriate way (Richards and Mattioli, 2021). This can be
said that there are always opportunities for having the unique and compelling presence to make
effective products and make regardless changes to require and make careful opportunities to
analyse the outcome and measure network for the growth and publicity of the project (6 Smart
Ways to Grow Your Business During a Pandemic, 2021). All is related to work and make
significant changes to analyse the outcome and work on the major different aspect impact on the
growth of company.
Intended Methodology
 Research philosophy: Research philosophy is a brief which is about to work and make
an effective phenomenon, to be gathered and make analysed. There are mainly two type
of research philosophy to work and make growth in managing and analysing effective
techniques. Positivism and interpretation philosophy. In this research, researcher used
interpretation approach, as the research is based on investigation and make suitable
qualitative data for the growth of research in the chosen topic (Sammut and et.al., 2021).
This will help the researcher to conduct in authenticate way and work as per the
progressive change and manage the data in an authenticate manner.
 Research strategies: After completing the process of philosophy, and make strategies to
analyse the concept and work to manage suitable changes. All of these are related to work
and make growth in the research. There are different strategies which are related to cases
study, Qualitative interviews, quantitative survey and make action oriented research.
Here, the qualitative data and make systematic changes are used to work and make
systematic growth in an different manner. Case study and qualitative data has been used
in the respected research to work and make growth of the research.
6

 Sources of data: There are two main data where the researcher can collect their
resources to analyse and achieve all research objectives. This research, include secondary
source of data which are related to work and make significant changes and work for the
growth and make appropriately changes to work and make different aspect. Primary data
collection is related to positivism approach, and suitable for the success of the research
outcome. But the researcher use secondary source of data through online data, books,
Newspaper and many more online and digital tools.
 Data collection and analysis techniques: There are different methods which make a
growth in data analysis content and work as per the collection of data. The two main data
collection methods are qualitative and quantitative methods (Shahzad and et.al., 2021).
This will be related to work and make significant approaches to analyse major changes
and suitable approach to work and make outcome. Here, qualitative method are used to
collect the data and make significant aspect for the growth to make effective analysis.
There are some major changes and techniques to complete the research in an authenticate
manner. The use of online sources and make observation though different case studies are
helpful for generating effective techniques.
 Ethical considerations: The use of ethical consideration are related to manage effective
and special consideration to analyse and make significant aspect to manage authenticate
manner. This will be related to work and make significant aspect manager to analyse data
protection act (1998). With the help of make significant aspect and make sure to manage
appropriate growth and work as per the significant changes to work and analyse different
aspect to make primary data collection and manage unethical validation process. All of
these are related to make privacy and anonymity to work and manage as per the growth to
analyse throughout the significance progressive change.
Resources Required and Action Plan
With the help of appropriate plan and resources, there are some major changes and
growth to work and make different evidence for the success of research aim and objectives. With
the help of making action plan, setting objective, assessing the objective, complete all steps and
indented the resources are mandatory for the research (Undseth, Jolly and Olivari, 2021). The
main resources are needed, human capital, online sources, and books are considered to manage
7

effective growth for completion of research. Further, all of these resources are work to complete
research and make changes with electronic and sources.
8

References
Books and Journals
Ghina, A. and Sinaryanti, I., 2021. The Learning Evaluation of Business Incubator's Role in
Developing Technology-Based Startups at Technology Business Incubator. The Asian
Journal of Technology Management, 14(1), pp.35-57.
Grenier, C. and Oiry, E. eds., 2021. Altering Frontiers: Organizational Innovations in
Healthcare. John Wiley & Sons.
Jones, P., Maas, G., Kraus, S. and Reason, L.L., 2021. An exploration of the role and
contribution of entrepreneurship centres in UK higher education institutions. Journal of
Small Business and Enterprise Development.
Maurer, L. and Nagel, F., 2021. The Support of Incubator and Accelerator Programs in the
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem with COVID-19: A Collective Case Study for Germany.
Osmani, A. and Beloucif, A., 2021. Challenges of Algeria’s Economic Development: A Youth
Entrepreneurship Perspective. In Enterprise and Economic Development in Africa.
Emerald Publishing Limited.
Pocek, J., Politis, D. and Gabrielsson, J., 2021. Entrepreneurial learning in extra-curricular start-
up programs for students. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior &
Research.
Richards, H. and Mattioli, F., 2021. Fashioning founders: Dress and gender in the entrepreneurial
ecosystem. Gender, Work & Organization.
Sammut, N., Spiteri, D., Sammut, J.P., Coppola, I., Lebrun, B. and Lepre, R., 2021. A Social
Innovation Strategic Framework for a Small Island State: A Case Study of Malta. The
Journal of Applied Business and Economics, 23(1), pp.100-115.
Shahzad, M.F., Khan, K.I., Saleem, S. and Rashid, T., 2021. What Factors Affect the
Entrepreneurial Intention to Start-Ups? The Role of Entrepreneurial Skills, Propensity
to Take Risks, and Innovativeness in Open Business Models. Journal of Open
Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 7(3), p.173.
Undseth, M., Jolly, C. and Olivari, M., 2021. Evolving public-private relations in the space
sector: Lessons learned for the post-COVID-19 era.
Online
Calvino. F., Criscuolo. C., and Verlhac. R., (2021). Start-ups in the time of COVID-19: Facing
the challenges, seizing the opportunities. [Online]. Available through:
<https://voxeu.org/article/challenges-and-opportunities-start-ups-time-covid-19>. {Last
accessed on 17th July 2021}.
Fallon. N., (2021). 6 Smart Ways to Grow Your Business During a Pandemic. [Online].
Available through: <https://www.uschamber.com/co/start/strategy/how-to-grow-your-
business-during-the-pandemic>. {Last accessed on 17th July 2021}.
Marwah. P and Madhvan. A., (2021). An insider’s view of the role of an incubator. [Online].
Available through: <https://yourstory.com/socialstory/2021/07/covid-vaccine-side-
effect-paralysis-arms-legs-guillain-barre-syndrome/amp>. {Last accessed on 17th July
2021}.
9