I think so -

For both types of industries just described, our model implies that a
mature ¯rm tends to abandon a project earlier than a young ¯rm. This is
because a mature firm chooses not to develop the incubated project if the
project's type does not match the firm's capability, whereas a young firm
cannot apply such an abandonment criterion not knowing its own capability.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/RICAFE/pdf/Ueda_Masako.pdf

http://incubator.apache.org/projects/index.html


He said there were two projects on the table then
and the University of Iowa still has two projects in mind; one is a $3 million project for the
upgrading of the Center for biocatalysis and Bioprocessing, to include certified good
manufacturing processes capabilities.
He said they also had a $7 million project planned for essentially a wet lab space for new
business incubation. He said it was the second project that they brought to the Committee
and is the one that

http://www2.state.ia.us/regents/meetings/Committees/ECOMemos...



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and by extension in your sentence it would be "... role of ~ as incubator for this project..." ...

FWA began in 1997 as a committee of the Greater Homewood Community Corporation who serve as a catalyst and incubator for this project of restoring and protecting the health of the Jones Falls Watershed.

http://www.knottfoundation.org/cashflow_loans/previous_recip...