An interactive Internet e-commerce network for the creation, launching and growing of new businesses including the incubation of ideas into successful businesses. The network is the first trade association for the business incubation industry in California.
AN INTRODUCTION
California Business Incubation Network, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, was established in 1990 and is the statewide association of incubator managers, owners and advocates. Its founders and board of directors and members have expertise in developing and managing both profit and nonprofit incubators.
CBIN membership is comprised of developers, managers and supporters of California business incubators. CBIN's network extends nationally and internationally to approximately 1500 business incubators worldwide.
Purposes:
To promote the concept of incubators as a strategic economic development tool to encourage local economic diversity and to support local job creation.
To provide leadership in the development of business incubators in California.
To facilitate the establishment of linkages with other associations and groups whose interests are related to the needs of small business incubators and new businesses.
To provide resources on incubation that include general information, advisors with a wide range of expertise, collaborations with international incubation experts, and models and guidelines for developing and operating incubators.
CBIN's Program Includes:
Regional meetings and seminars on incubation throughout the year, and an annual membership conference.
A quarterly newsletter and annual magazine.
An information clearinghouse and referral system.
A training institute for managers, developers, and interested parties.
Initiation and coordination of strategies for technology transfer to smaller and early-stage companies.
Facilitation for planning of export strategies in incubator-based companies.
For more information about CBIN and some significant facts on it's accomplishments, be sure to visit the
Facts Page
California Business Incubation Network (CBIN)
For more information about CBIN, about incubation, and about participating in the planning of local incubator events, please contact: Sheila H. Washington President/CEO
225 Broadway, Suite 375 San Diego, CA 92101 Tel: 619 237-0559
Fax: 619 237-0521 800 427-4710 sheilawash@aol.com
Barbara L. Harley Director
Tel: 415 274-7000
Fax: 493-0622 California Business Incubation Network is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Corporation, supported by membership dues,
fees for services and sponsors.Board of Directors
Sheila Washington, President
San Diego Incubator Corp.
Claudia Viek, Vice President
San Francisco Renaissance
Entrepreneurship Center
Jeffrey Mickeal, Treasurer
Coopers & Lybrand
Los Angeles
Barbara Harley, Secretary
Treinen-Harley Associates
Palo Alto
Barry Brynjulson
Pacific Bell
San Francisco
Cindy Foley
Arcata Economic
Development Corporation
Joseph McClure
Lancaster Business Center
Tonia McDonald
CSBI, Global Business
Incubation, Culver City
Tapan Munroe, PhD.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
San Francisco
Arthur J. Swerdloff, Esq.
Jerico Management Co.
Los Angeles
Frans Verschoor
Worldport Business Center
San Pedro
Corporate Sponsors:
Bank of America
Coopers & Lybrand
GTE Telephone Operations
Pacific Bell
Pacific Gas & Electric
Wells Fargo Bank
San Diego Incubator Corp.
Claudia Viek, Vice President