دور حاضنات الاعمال في تذليل صعوب ادارة المشروعات الصغيرة و المتوسطة في الاردن

Role of Business Incubators in Overcoming Difficulties Faced by SME’s Management in Jordan

The study aims at determining the role of business incubators in overcoming the difficulties faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SME’s) in Jordan that lead to the faltering or total failure of these projects, and then the negative impact on the role of these projects in supporting the Jordanian economy as one of the most basic contributors to the Jordanian economy, as it is the case for most countries. Business Incubators are the basis for the establishment of many SME’s. Therefore, due to the limited studies on the role of business incubators in strengthening the role of SME’s, particularly in Jordan, this study has focused on clarifying this role by focusing on four types of difficulties faced by such enterprises, approved by the majority of researchers, namely: financing difficulties, organizational difficulties, difficulties related to functions of project management and competitive difficulties. The study reached a number of conclusions. The most important is that those business incubators did not perform its due role in overcoming the difficulties faced by SME’s, and they did not pay enough attention to identify such difficulties. To strengthen the role of business incubators in overcoming the difficulties facing the SME’s management in Jordan, the study made several recommendations. The most important is to draw the relevant authorities’ attention to the business incubators’ expected role in supporting SME’s by the provision of consulting and technical services that contribute to overcome these difficulties.