Earlier studies provide mixed results regarding the influence of incubator resources on a startup’s chances of survival. This study suggests that this is because they tend not to take into consideration the attributes of the founders who actually make use of those resources. Based on 59 student startups operating in an academic incubator, this study finds that founding teams’ prior experience moderates the positive relationship between an incubator’s mentoring program and the startup’s chances of survival through the first year. The results demonstrate that the survival chances of startups whose founding teams have high levels of managerial experience or low levels of entrepreneurial experience are low when they do not take advantage of the incubator’s mentoring program. Drawing on learning theory, this study explains how different types of prior experience influence the relationship between the incubator’s mentoring program and the startup’s first year survival chances. The study’s results expand our understanding of and contribute to resource-based view theory by considering the interactive influence of founding teams’ human capital and incubators’ resources on startups’ chances of survival.

较早的研究提供了关于孵化器资源对初创企业生存机会的影响的混合结果。这项研究表明，这是因为他们往往没有考虑实际利用这些资源的创始人的属性。基于在学术孵化器中运营的59家学生创业公司，该研究发现创始团队的先前经验减轻了孵化器指导计划与创业公司通过第一年的生存机会之间的积极关系。结果表明，如果创始团队没有利用孵化器的指导计划，其创始团队具有较高管理经验或较低创业经验的创业公司的生存机会就很低。借鉴学习理论，这项研究解释了不同类型的先前经验如何影响孵化器的指导计划与创业公司第一年生存机会之间的关系。通过考虑创始团队的人力资本和孵化器资源对初创企业生存机会的互动影响，研究结果扩展了我们对基于资源的观点理论的理解并做出了贡献。