Microsoft also has an incubator program, lending $10,000 developer tool kits to independent groups.

So far, according to Mark P. Rice, the director of the incubator program, it has helped 45 new companies.

Twenty information technology and biotechnology companies are in the incubator program.

But the Governor is also committed to developing these economic incubator programs.

As a student entrepreneur start up business, Lycos was qualified for the incubator program.

Technology centers are the step up for companies emerging from incubator programs.

More than thirty local entrepreneurs are potential future tenants of the Village's incubator program.

The Bard Center provides an incubator program for start-up businesses.

The incubator program guided the company's transition into a business-to-business model.

"I presented it and was accepted into the incubator program immediately."