Duffell: Policymakers favor flashy startups over second-stage business incubation
Andrew Duffell · Building Entrepreneurship in Research Park at Florida Atlantic University: A Conversation with Andrew Duffel, President of Research Park · Oct 7, 2025 · at 16:01
Andrew Duffell, President of the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University, explains why public funding and policy support are scarce for second-stage incubators.
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“Policymakers are impatient, so they want a flashy success quickly in a startup, and then hundred job announcements they can make and ribbons they can cut on the other end.”
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