UBI Global has announced the winners of its global incubator benchmark, with SetSquared retaining number one but this time sharing the position with DMZ.
SetSquared, a partnership between Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey universities, emerged as the top incubator in the world at the World Incubation Summit in Toronto on Friday, sharing first place with Ryerson University’s DMZ.
SetSquared and DMZ won joint top place in the university-linked incubation program category. The ranking was published by UBI Global, a research firm specialising in incubators, which benchmarked 259 programs for the latest edition.
The first place for SetSquared means the incubator maintained its leadership after previously also winning first place in 2015. DMZ was ranked in third place at the time.
Simon Bond, innovation director of SetSquared, and Ali Amin, co-founder and chief executive of UBI Global, previously discussed the incubator’s success at GUV:Fusion 2017.
The top ten were filled out by:
3 PoliHub – Startup District & Incubator, at Polytechnic University of Milan
4 University of Toronto Entrepreneurship
5 Incubadora de Alto Impacto del Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus León at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
6 IncubaUdec at University of Concepción
7 Business Incubator at National Research University Higher School of Economics
8 McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship at McGill University
9 Startup Aggieland at Texas A&M University
10 Red de Incubadoras at Universidad del Valle de Mexico
Bond said: “We are delighted to be acknowledged once again as the world’s top business incubator and it is an honour to be recognised by UBI Global in this way alongside the best performing university business incubators and accelerator programmes in the world.
“This ranking reflects the commitment of the SetSquared team, a university environment in the UK that embraces innovation and enterprise and, of course, the sheer talent and drive of the entrepreneurs and companies that we have the privilege to work with.”
Abdullah Snobar, executive director at DMZ, said: “At the DMZ, we understand that economic vitality is fuelled by growth-driven incubation and acceleration programs that accelerate the success of the next generation of innovative businesses and prepare them for global expansion.
“The UBI ranking is helping us better understand ways to push boundaries in order to create impact not just for our entrepreneurs, but also for our country’s contribution to the global startup ecosystem.”
