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Entrepreneurship is essential to provide opportunities for a better quality of societies. Incubators have the role to enhance their generation, expansion, or acceleration capacities. In Ecuador, this is a topic still to develop, with a total of 26 accredited incubators registered and distributed in six provinces with direct influence of Higher Education Institutions. This study aims to determine the characteristics of accredited Ecuadorian incubators, identifying the type of incubators and their influence on the expansion of ventures in their provinces of origin. The research used quantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative information responds to 26 accredited incubators and 9,933 incidents that originated during the fourth quarter of 2021 until the second quarter of 2023. The quantitative information was analyzed through the Shapiro test -Wilk, while qualitative data mainly refers to services offered by incubators. The results show that Ecuadorian incubators positively influence the generation of entrepreneurship, with a moderate correlation between these variables. Regarding the type of incubators, it is possible to identify that in Ecuador, there are two types of incubators, the first and second generation; most of these incubators offer counseling and advisory services, while only three of them provide initial capital to entrepreneurs. These aspects show that they partially affect the generation of entrepreneurship in their respective provinces.
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