In response to the rising numbers of refugees worldwide, many aid organizations suggest entrepreneurship as a preferred route to refugee economic self-reliance in a new country. Incubators have long provided assistance to nascent entrepreneurs and are utilized worldwide to offer support to entrepreneurial businesses. Yet, little research examines refugee-focused incubators or considers refugee-specific constraints. Herein, we argue that refugee status has specific implications for how refugee entrepreneurs accumulate and deploy human, social and financial capital. Thus, refugee status affects the types of services transitioning refugees require from incubators. This paper considers refugee-specific resources and uses a case study approach to investigate resource provision in a refugee-focused incubator in the United States. We find that even when an incubator follows best practices in terms of service provision, it may still miss the mark in terms of meeting key resource needs of refugees. Specifically, this paper illuminates how refugee entrepreneurs need (more) incubator support in terms of (1) addressing mental health in service provision, (2) building community within the incubator and (3) balancing financial tradeoffs associated with culturally-based businesses. Findings are novel when tied to a resource-based lens and help build theory regarding entrepreneurship among less-served populations.

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做对了，但做错了：以难民为中心的孵化器的最佳实践

为了应对全球难民人数的增加，许多援助组织建议将创业作为难民在新国家经济自力更生的首选途径。孵化器长期以来一直为新生企业家提供帮助，并在全球范围内为创业企业提供支持。然而，很少有研究检查以难民为中心的孵化器或考虑特定难民的限制。在此，我们认为难民身份对难民企业家如何积累和部署人力、社会和金融资本具有特定的影响。因此，难民身份会影响过渡难民需要从孵化器获得的服务类型。本文考虑了特定于难民的资源，并使用案例研究方法来调查美国以难民为中心的孵化器的资源供应情况。我们发现，即使孵化器在提供服务方面遵循最佳实践，在满足难民的关键资源需求方面仍可能达不到标准。具体而言，本文阐明了难民企业家在以下方面如何需要（更多）孵化器支持：（1）解决服务提供中的心理健康问题，（2）建立社区之内孵化器和 (3) 平衡与基于文化的企业相关的财务权衡。当与基于资源的视角联系起来时，研究结果是新颖的，有助于建立关于服务较少人群创业的理论。