Incite vs Incentivize - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between incite and incentivize

is that incite is to rouse, stir up or excite while incentivize is to provide incentives for; to encourage.

(incit)

To rouse, stir up or excite.

The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.

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* incentivise

(incentiviz)

(transitive, US, business, economics) To provide incentives for; to encourage.

:The US government seeks to incentivize home ownership through a favorable tax system.

(transitive, US, business, economics) To provide incentives to.

:They effectively incentivized people to overinvest in home ownership.

* Used relatively more than (incent) to refer to the use of systems of incentives.

* disincentivize