The Operation Of Business Accelerator In The Unite States

American business accelerator is a product of the new economy. Business accelerator is a specialized service organization which aimed to accelerate high-growth, high-potential and high-technology entrepreneurial. Business accelerators covering wide-range of services areas with distinctive service mode and object, is a senior form of incubator, expanding and extending the function of the business incubator. .based on 47 business accelerators in America, this paper select Portland State Business accelerator, START Technology enterprise center, Houston Technology center and other 7 business accelerators for an empirical analysis.The mission (general objective) of American business accelerator is to enable and accelerate the growth of high-potential, high–technology companies for the purpose of promoting economic development and creating jobs. Meanwhile, in the implementation of the basic function, business accelerator also expands the international market and foster technology innovation commercial. In order to accelerate the company growth, business accelerator will select company whose mission match with regional economic development strategy, according to the resource superiority and government guidance/ intention. There are two entrance forms, it is entity and virtual. Business accelerators supply infrastructure, investment & financing, management consulting, Technological Innovation and other professional services to satisfy the specific need of clients. On the organizational structure, American business accelerator use a widespread mechanism of the council should assume overall responsibility under the leadership of the managing director. According to the size and functional orientation of business accelerator, American business accelerator mainly adopt matrix management, inverted pyramid structure as well as network structure.In the past 10 years, American business accelerator formed a scientific operation mode. Its main features include multi-participants, intensive physical space, cooperative networks , have a high level of specialization team and service pattern diversification.