The Wisconsin Business Incubation Association
Where Incubation Means Business http://www.wbiastate.orgInformation about Wisconsin's Business Incubators on this site comes to you thanks to the program support of the Wisconsin Business Incubator Association and its Members.
Why Should I Join WBIA?
When you join the Wisconsin Business Incubation Association, you join a group of professionals statewide who
provide support to today’s most exciting new businesses. WBIA services and programs prepare you to help your start-up businesses build their strength and value.
Membership Benefits
- Training and Education opportunities at quarterly meetings held around the State, and an Annual Entrepreneurship/Incubation Conference held in Madison, Milwaukee or Green Bay.
- Access Insider Information from the Association’s comprehensive member surveys conducted in 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999 and 2002.
- Networking opportunities at quarterly and annual meetings.
- Membership Database providing contact, facility and incubation service information about all members.
- Web Site offering comprehensive association information, individual member profiles and member updated incubation facility pages including client business profiles to facilitate business-to-business transactions in the statewide network.
- Member Discounts on all association sponsored publications and conferences.
- To Join the WBIA Contact Rebecca Mackintosh of Peaks and Valleys at 414-276-9555
About WBIA
- Founded in 1988 in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.
- Has over 60 members including over 30 incubation facilities, making WBIA the fourth largest state incubation organization in the nation.
- Approved as a 501(c)3 tax-exempt corporation in 1999.
- Governed by an eleven member Board of Directors.
- Has twice hosted the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) internation-al conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Sponsors quarterly networking and training meetings around the state and an Annual Entrepreneurship/Incubation conference.
- Has maintained representation on the NBIA Board of Directors throughout most of that organization’s history.
- Has sponsored regular and continuing self-assessment of its members’ incubation programs through comprehensive surveys in 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999 and 2002.
About Our Members
- 64% of the facilities are owned by 501(c)3 non-profit organizations
- The average facility is 49,000 square feet
- 60% of incubator start-up costs are equity financed
- 48% of the state incubators have existed for more than 10 years
- 58% of incubator facilities were retrofitted from a previous use
- The most popular tenant business sectors are manufacturing and service
- Urban incubators represent 52% of all Wisconsin facilities.