Creation of companies` incubator in the light of cerne: incubator novus´case
International Journal of Development Research
Creation of companies` incubator in the light of cerne: incubator novus´case
Received 25th October, 2018; Received in revised form 09th November, 2018; Accepted 14th December, 2018; Published online 30th January, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Rafael Pereira Ocampo Moré et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The general objective of the article is to present the process of creating an incubator of companies from CERNE (Center of Reference for Support to New Ventures), and for this, the key processes of the creation of the incubator NOVUS Development of Innovative Enterprises), of the Innovation Secretariat of UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina). The methodology is characterized as a descriptive and exploratory study, in which data were collected from the NOVUS incubator, and being created in 2017 by UFSC, was analyzed from the theoretical perspective of habitats of innovation, absorptive capacity, and innovation. The data analyzed suggest that the standardization of processes and the wide dissemination of methods of evaluation and selection of resident companies are strategic factors for the incubation of the incubator in CERNE, and the quest to create standards of performance in order to increase the capacity incubators, can help in the creation of innovative and successful ventures.