The National Business Incubation Association defines the five key components of business incubation as the following:
- Working with new companies
- Screening potential clients based on set selection criteria
- Providing comprehensive business assistance services
- Having on-site management that coordinates the delivery of services
- Graduating companies from the program
Greater Gainesville has really embraced the incubator/startup relationship, and it’s ever-reaching impact. Incubator/startup relationships have been known to affect many factors within a community:
- Creating local jobs
- Fostering entrepreneurial climate
- Commercializing technology
- Diversifying local economies
- Building/accelerating local industry growth
- Retaining firms in community
- Encouraging minority or women entrepreneurship
A select listing of incubators and co-work spaces in Greater Gainesville.
“Gainesville is the perfect environment to start a tech company with its high density of educated creative class, low cost and quality of life.” —-Augi Lye, Trendy Entertainment CEO
Incubators and Co-Work Spaces
Blue Oven Kitchens Inc.
530 W University Ave.
Gainesville, FL 32601
(Located in Santa Fe College CIED)
(352) 278-7518
blueovenkitchens.org
Florida Laboratory Consortium: Southeast Region
P.O. Box 1889
High Springs, FL 32655
(386) 454-5676
flcsoutheast.org
Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research
747 SW 2nd Ave., Suite 329
Gainesville, FL 32601
(352) 294-2728
florida-institute.com
Gainesville Hackerspace
101 SE 2nd Pl., Suite 100
Gainesville, FL 32601
skillhouse.org/space
Gainesville Technology Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC)
2153 SE Hawthorne Road, Suite 101
Gainesville, FL 32641
(352) 393-6000
sfcollege.edu
GatorLab
308 W University Ave.
Gainesville, FL 32601
gatorlab.com
Innovation Hub at the University of Florida
747 SW 2nd Ave.
Gainesville, FL 32601
(352) 294-0885
floridainnovationhub.ufl.edu
Newberry Main Street Incubator
25435 W Newberry Road
Newberry, FL 32669
(352) 472-2112
newberrymainstreet.com
Santa Fe Center for Innovation and Economic Development (CIED)
530 W University Ave.
Gainesville, FL 32601
(352) 395-5053
sfcollege.edu/cied
Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator
12085 Research Dr.
Alachua, FL 32615
(386) 462-0880
sidmartinbio.org
Starter Space
308 W University Ave.
Gainesville, FL 32601
(415) 506-8657
starterspace.com
SYNOGEN Downtown Technology Center (DTC)
101 SE 2nd Pl., Suite 201-B
Gainesville, FL 32601
(352) 371-2075
synogen.com/consulting/DTC.asp
UF Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
747 SW 2nd Ave.
Gainesville, FL 32601
(352) 392-8929
research.ufl.edu/otl