102scouting/nudging and pre-incubation; on biotech; on art and design; and on hightech products and more general services. A crucial question is the extent to which the different support processes—the four basic activities—are specific to each organizational body or whether the measures can, and in that case how, be used more generically throughout the whole system to achieve synergies. Another is how the majority owner—the Holding Company—can facilitate and secure an even more effective use of existing and new innovative measures, without taking away the responsibility for strategic vital choices from the project-owner team.

Two intertwined aspects must be considered in the process depicted in Fig. 2 the ongoing support processes in the system and the organizational structure of the system. Closely related to the structuring of the system is the question of how results should be measured. More traditional measurements and indicators, such as estimating the number of companies leaving the incubators and the employment impact,