The State Council has determined policies and measures to support the development of "maker space" to build a new platform for entrepreneurship and innovation. For a time, 'maker space' became a new hot word. What's the difference between it and business incubator? Let's follow the editor to have a look.
The origin of "maker space"
Many years ago, makers in Europe and America developed UAVs with less than 1% of Boeing's cost. This UAV has realized many functions, and people see the power of creation. Today, this wave of creation is sweeping through China and has been officially named 'maker space'.
The proposal of "mass innovation space" reflects the new situation of new economic models and new business forms in China, and provides a good policy environment for innovation and Entrepreneurship of the whole people.
"Maker space" is a general term, which provides a low-cost, convenient and all factor open comprehensive service platform for the growth of small and micro innovative enterprises and individual innovation and entrepreneurship.
The origin of business incubator
Incubator, English for incubator, originally refers to the special equipment for artificially hatching eggs. Later, it was introduced into the economic field, which refers to a centralized space, which can provide various conveniences such as funds and management when the enterprises are struggling in the initial stage of establishment, aiming at incubating high-tech achievements, technology-based enterprises and start-ups, so as to promote cooperation and exchange and make the enterprises bigger. What is the difference between maker space and traditional incubator
What is the difference between maker space and traditional incubator
The "maker space" must belong to the "public", and the niche model cannot serve the "public innovation". For example, Shanghai's "maker space" includes traditional incubators, science and technology parks, makers, nurseries, and pioneer parks, as well as carriers of light physical space and heavy service, including new cars. These new organizations with or without physical space should belong to a large category of "maker space" as long as they provide services for entrepreneurs. Based on the development of science and technology business incubator, crowdsourcing space is a low-cost, convenient and all factor business service community emerging through the integration of new mode, new mechanism, new service and new culture. It gathers various elements of innovation and entrepreneurship, and provides good working space, network space, social space and resource sharing space for mass innovation and entrepreneurship.
As a new force of maker space, 'maker' focuses on idea, which is the forefront of innovation and stimulates the seeds of innovation. The core of maker is to integrate creativity into manufacturing, and its pursuit is to make a new idea into a new product. Maker platform is a platform to help entrepreneurs turn ideas into samples. Traditional incubators have the function of public welfare, and pay more attention to entrepreneurship, that is, the middle end and back end of innovation. They focus on the establishment of an 'Entrepreneurship nursery incubator accelerator' innovation service system, which not only provides a zero cost entrepreneurial environment for entrepreneurs, but also enables the innovation seeds to take root and grow healthily through the physical space and relatively complete incubation service system, and promotes the listing. This is a process and relationship of the whole industry chain.
The connection and difference between maker space and maker space
There are two kinds of maker space. One is pure interest type and pure play type maker space. The purpose of this kind of maker space is not strong. The original purpose of making things is usually 'fun', which is to have fun by solving intellectually challenging problems. What they do is not necessarily innovation, nor will they eventually start a business. Because these makers don't look up information before doing things, and they don't care whether the things they do belong to innovation; similarly, they don't do market research, and they can't guarantee whether the things they do have commercial value. As long as it's fun, even if it's something that others have done, they are willing to do it again, even if it's something that obviously has no practical value. No maker in the original traditional sense can 'do whatever fire is'. The other is the maker space that not only implements innovation but also entrepreneurship and provides incubation services. Makers in this kind of maker space will solve problems in ways that have never appeared before, strive to form innovation, strive to be accepted by the market, realize business value, and fulfill entrepreneurial dream. This kind of maker space focuses on marketization, integration and networking, and emphasizes the combination of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Contact: maker space has many types: investment promotion type, training guidance type, media extension type, professional service type, maker incubation type, large enterprise resource sharing type, comprehensive entrepreneurial ecology type, etc. Only the maker incubation type maker space, which guides maker to implement innovation and entrepreneurship, and provides incubation service, can be included in the category of maker space.
Difference: the traditional pure play type and pure interest type maker space is not purposeful and does not belong to the category of maker space. The maker incubation type maker space, which guides makers to implement innovation and entrepreneurship, and provides incubation services, emphasizes the practicality of entrepreneurship. Maker incubation maker space is just one of the forms of maker space.