The purposes of BIA/NYS, Inc., are: - to expand the resources available to start-up companies and to work with policy-makers on matters affecting the growth and development of incubator-based enterprises; - to promote through cooperation and on a broadly integrative basis the educational and entrepreneurial activities of incubators within the state; and - to establish a structure and ongoing process to network business incubators, incubating/incubated companies, and other interested parties.