So what's a startup accelerator, anyway? (The Startup Magazine)
June 26, 2017
A new, hot trend gaining popularity is university-sponsored business accelerators. With more than 172 U.S-based accelerators identified across the country, universities are embedding these programs into local communities.
Accelerators provide an ecosystem to support startups because they are a source of economic growth. Ideas, talent, capital and a culture of open collaboration are resources that are vital to start-up communities and are the bases of that entrepreneurial ecosystem of an accelerator.