According to the Harvard Business Review, the number of accelerators grew by 50 percent in the United States between 2008 and 2014. China has decided to increase the number of incubators, makerspaces and accelerators to more than 10,000 by 2020 (China had 7,500 accelerators as of 2017). The 10,000 plus accelerator programs in the world today, according to StartupYard and Gust, are a part of a growing global ecosystem currently emerging around entrepreneurship. This new breed of entrepreneurship, with its roots in the American Y Combinator in 2005 and followed by TechStars in 2006, has exploded, growing rapidly to include...