Entrepreneurship and start-ups are important factors for economic growth and development. As the surrounding innovation ecosystem is becoming increasingly complex, it gets more difficult for entrepreneurs to find the right path. Incubators are important when it comes to facilitating and supporting new ventures. In this research, we conducted 19 semi-structured interviews of which five were held with public incubators, four with private incubators, nine with incubatees and one with Vinnova (a government authority that plays a huge part within the existence of public incubators) in order to gain an understanding of the interplay of the incubation process and the entrepreneurial process. As for analyzing the collected data we used a thematic analysis with an inductive approach. Throughout the coding process, we extracted the following three main topics: role of an incubator, incubation process and interplay. However, a distinction between public and private incubators was approved as applicable that determines the incubators’ purpose, objectives and operations. Our findings suggest that incubators play an important role in supporting and guiding the start-ups by transferring knowledge and asking the right questions as a fundament for the further entrepreneurial process. Continuous communication and expectation management are shown as crucial throughout the interplay of the two processes. Lastly, the disconnection from the incubatees should be done carefully, e.g. through a non-proactive aftercare.

Submitted by Joana Azevedo (joanad@id.uff.br) on 2017-10-10T13:47:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERT Claudio Almeida Pinheiro.pdf: 2607136 bytes, checksum: 4eb6590137f0db3422bb97235d0e8507 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Biblioteca da Escola de Engenharia (bee@ndc.uff.br) on 2017-10-16T11:21:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERT Claudio Almeida Pinheiro.pdf: 2607136 bytes, checksum: 4eb6590137f0db3422bb97235d0e8507 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-16T11:21:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERT Claudio Almeida Pinheiro.pdf: 2607136 bytes, checksum: 4eb6590137f0db3422bb97235d0e8507 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-05 / As incubadoras de empresas devem garantir condições favoráveis para o sucesso das empresas incubadas e pré-incubadas, diminuindo o índice de fracassos das micros e pequenas empresas, para alcançar o sucesso precisam ampliar quantitativa e qualitativamente seus resultados, de forma que os objetivos e metas sejam alcançados para um patamar de sustentabilidade do negócio. O objetivo deste estudo é propor um sistema de indicadores de desempenho que permita a Incubadora de Empresas em Tecnologia – IETEC (CEFET-RJ) atender os requisitos para a implantação e certificação do modelo CERNE 1, através do método do Design Science Research, para criar o artefato proposto, utilizando modelos conhecidos de sistemas de mensuração de desempenho de incubadoras de base tecnológica, existentes na literatura. Dentro deste contexto, com incentivo governamental foi criado pela Associação Nacional das Entidades Promotoras de Empreendimentos Inovadores (ANPROTEC) em parceria com o Serviço de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas (SEBRAE), o Centro de Referência para Apoio a Novos Empreendimentos (CERNE), com a elaboração de procedimentos padronizados para a implementação de sistemas de gestão de desempenho das empresas e da própria incubadora, utilizando de ferramentas e mecanismos adequados para a mensuração. O artefato criado é composto por (40) indicadores de desempenho que contemplam os cinco eixos norteadores do CERNE: empreendedor, tecnologia, capital, mercado e gestão. / Business incubators should ensure favorable conditions for the success of the incubated companies and pre-incubated, decreasing the rate of failures of micro and small enterprises to achieve success you need to expand your results, quantitative and qualitatively of so that the goals and objectives are achieved to a level of sustainability of the business. The objective of this study is to propose a system of performance indicators that allow the technology business incubator-IETEC (CEFET-RJ) meet the requirements for the implementation and certification of the model CORE 1, by the method of Design Science Research, to create the artifact proposed, seeking in literature known models of performance measurement systems of technology-based incubators. Within this context, with Government incentive was created by the National Association of organizations promoting Innovative Ventures (ANPROTEC) in partnership with supporting service for Micro and small enterprises (SEBRAE), the Centre of reference for supporting new Developments (CORE), with the development of standardized procedures for the implementation of performance management systems of companies and own incubator, using appropriate mechanisms and tools for measurement. The artifact created consists of (40) performance indicators covering the five axes guiding CORE: entrepreneur, technology, capital, market and management.

Bakgrund: En inkubator är ett entreprenöriellt utvecklingsprogram för nystartade företag med utgångspunkt att effektiva deras uppstartsprocess. Företag ingår i en inkubation under en tidsbestämd period där de erbjuds affärsutveckling och rådgivning. De agerar i inkubatorns kontorslokaler tillsammans med andra inkuberade företag. Sociala nätverk är en omfattande del av nystartade företags konkurrenskraft och utveckling på marknaden. Genom sociala nätverk genereras rådgivning, kompetens, kapital och affärsmöjligheter. För att nätverken ska fungera krävs det att entreprenörer interagerar och utbyter information vilket skapar en tillit. Förtroende och tillit möjliggjör för att att nätverken ska vara effektiva och givande, vilket dessutom utgör relationen mellan individerna. Inkuberade företag möter olika utmaningar genom att ingå i ett inkubatorsprogram. Nätverk och kompetens kan vara för likartad samt homogen. Dessutom kan förtroendet mellan de inkuberade företagen och inkubatorn i en flexibel kontorsyta vara komplext. Fortsättningsvis att företagens förmåga att utveckla verksamheten vidare minimeras utan inkubatorns stöd.   Problemformulering: Vilka likheter och skillnader innefattar de inkuberade företagen om inkubatorns program?   Syfte: Syftet med studien är att jämföra de inkuberade företagens förväntningar och upplevelser av en inkubator.   Metod: Uppsatsens har ett kvalitativt tillvägagångssätt och en komparativ forskningsdesign. Således en jämförande studie av de inkuberade företagens förväntningar och upplevelser av en inkubator. Kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer har använts för att samla data från respondenter. Fyra olika företag i form av Measure and Change, Världens Chans, Lumispectra samt YLDR intervjuades från samma inkubator (Företagsfabriken).   Slutsats: Samtliga inkuberade företag är överens om att inkubatorns nätverk inte är tillräckligt effektivt. Upplevelsen har inte bemött deras förväntningar på grund av brister i effektivitet, organisering samt intressanta aktörer. Förtroende för inkubatorn har påverkats negativt för samtliga företag förutom YLDR vilket grundar sig i inkubatorns verksamhetsstruktur och tillgänglighet. Samtidigt har det blivit bättre över tid. Kapitalanskaffningen har delvis besvarat de inkuberade företagens förväntningar. Framförallt det sociala och humana kapitalet. Däremot har det finansiella kapitalet inte besvarat något företags förväntningar förutom (YLDR). / Background: A business incubator is an entrepreneurial development program för start up businesses. Firms in a start up phase are a part of the program in a certain amount of time where they recieve an office space, business advice and development. Together with other incubated companies are they developing their business ideas in a flexible office structure. Furthermore are social networks a major competitive advantage for start up businesses where they can receive competence, capital and business oppertunities. Trust is a major component in order to make the social networks to function. Building trust between to firms creates a relation where they can gain different types of advantages and resources. An incubated business can encouter different types of challenges and problem within an incubator such as homogeneus competence and business networks. Also, trust issues against other incubated businesses and finally problems with being able to develope their firm further after the incubation program.    Research Question: What similarities and differences within the incubation program are the incubated businesses comprising?   Purpose: The purpose of the study is to compare the incubated business actors expectations and experiences of an incubator.   Method: The paper has a qualitative research method and a comparative research design. Furthermore a comparative study of the incubated businesses expectations and experiences from an incubators (Foretagsfabriken). The data was gathered from four incubated businesses who are operating within the same incubator. The firms that participated in the study where Measure and Change, Varldens Chans, Lumispectra and YLDR.   Conclusion: The internal and external network has not met the expectations from the incubated businesses. It has not been organized or efficient with enough interesting actors for them to further develope their business. The trust between the incubator and the incubated businesses has been affected negatively except for YLDR. Furthmore, the acess to different types of capital has partially met the expectations that the start up comapnies had, epescially the social and the human capital. However, YLDR was the only company that where their expectations for financial capital was fulfilled.

Bakgrund: Inkubatorer är organisationer som syftar till att hjälpa nystartade företag att växa och överleva sina tidiga år. Det finns tydligt beskrivet hur inkubatorernas stödprocesserär utformade, men beskrivningar om hur och varför de utformats på detta sätt lyser med sin frånvaro. Ett fåtal forskare har antagit eller beskrivit kopplingar mellan processutformning och organisationers målsättning, men ingen tydlig koppling verkar ha identifierats. Genom att sammankoppla målsättning och process syftar denna studie till att illustrera hur processer utformas, både inom inkubatorer och hos andra organisationstyper. Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva hur målsättningen hos icke-vinstdrivande svenska inkubatorer påverkar utformningen av inkubatorernas inkubationsprocesser. Metod: Uppsatsen utgår ifrån ett konstruktionistiskt perspektiv med en abduktiv ansats, som i sin tur inneburit ett iterativt arbetssätt. Studien har en kvalitativ forskningsdesign, och undersöker 11 svenska inkubatorer i en fenomenbaserad små-N-studie. Uppsatsens respondenter valdes ut genom ett i huvudsak målstyrt urval, och data från respondenterna har samlats in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. En tematisk analys har utförts baserat på den empiriska data för att finna kopplingar till uppsatsens frågeställningar. Slutsats: Studien drar tydliga kopplingar mellan målsättning hos svenska icke vinstdrivande inkubatorer och deras inkubationsprocesser. Dessa kopplingar kan dras både mellan övergripande mål och specifika mål inom organisationerna. Urvalet till en inkubator påverkas mycket av inkubatorns olika mål. Vissa delar av handledningsprocessen, främst nätverksaktiviteter och rådgivning, påverkas också tydligt av inkubatorns mål. Denna studie har dessutom påvisat att de specifika målen som formulerats hos inkubatorerna ofta baseras på de övergripande målen. / Background: Business incubators are organizations with a purpose to help new ventures grow and survive their early years. There are descriptions of the general incubation process, but clear motivations of their process design are sorely missing. Some researchers suggest links between the goals of organizations and their process design, but a clear connection seems to be missing. By connecting goals and processes, this study aims to illustrate how processes are formed within business incubators as well as other types of organizations. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe how the goals of Swedish non-profit incubators influence the design of business incubators’ incubation processes. Methodology: The study is based on a constructionist perspective with an abductive approach, which in turn has led to an iterative study process. It is based on a qualitative research design and investigates 11 respondents through a small-N-study. Respondents were chosen based on a mostly goal-driven selection process, and empirical data has been collected through semi-structured interviews with each respondent. A thematic analysis was conducted on this data to answer the research questions posed. Conclusion: The study draws clear connections between goals of Swedish non-profit business incubators and their incubation processes. These connections can be made from both organizational goals and specific goals within the organizations. Incubators' selection processes are largely affected by the different goals of the organization. This is also true for networking and guidance activities within the incubator. In addition, the study has shown that specific goals within the incubators are largely influenced by their organizational goals.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:51:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2562.pdf: 618378 bytes, checksum: 662d3f5ec8e8b74fa6fd265ff408e9cc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-29 / Technological based firms (TBFs) have been widely studied because of its importance in the nation´s innovation system. Health industry is one of the most innovative sector at the economy and it´s constituted also of great corporations and health care manufacture equipment and biotechnology small firms that compete at health equipment manufactory and biotechnology market niches. Ribeirão Preto is characterized as one of the technological region at São Paulo state. The development of SUPERA is one of the strategies adopted to consolidate the city as a health technological polar region. This work analysis the social relations between technological-based firms and institutional agents of health sector. For this purpose it´s used social networks methods to calculate specific measures such as density and centrality degree of actors. It evidences that SUPERA is at the center of studied information and cooperation networks. Theorists defend that these kind of network support companies´ innovation process and its competitiveness. The analysis of density and centrality measures so as actor´s scores of 2-mode matrices where calculated using the software Ucinet. The results confirm the central role of SUPERA for the creation of new TBFs; identify that the studied firms are inserted in low density networks and that strong relations seems to exist more frequently in cooperation relations between university-firms rather than with another institutions. It concludes that there are few entrepreneur´s information exchange relations and that they do not recognize the relevance of institutional agents in the firms innovation process. Cooperative action is almost inexistent or occurs in the informal level without relevance to the TBFs´ innovative system. The incubation process seems to be the extension of academic projects that tends to the mantain the distances between firms and market reality. / As empresas de base tecnológica têm sido amplamente estudadas devido a sua importância no sistema de inovação do país. O complexo industrial da saúde é um dos setores da economia com altos índices de inovação. É constituído tanto por grandes corporações, quanto por empresas de menor porte que atuam em nichos das áreas de fabricação de equipamentos médico-hospitalar e biotecnologia. O município de Ribeirão Preto possui elementos que o configuram como um pólo de saúde. A implantação da incubadora SUPERA é uma das estratégias adotada para firmar a cidade como pólo tecnológico. Esse trabalho tem por objetivo analisar as relações entre as empresas incubadas, e dessas com os agentes institucionais do setor, de acordo com os pressupostos da abordagem de redes por meio de princípios teóricos e metodológicos específicos. Acredita-se que as redes de empresas inseridas no ambiente de incubação favorecem as relações de troca de informação e cooperação para o desenvolvimento de produto, e que essas podem sustentar o processo de inovação das empresas e sua competitividade no mercado. As análises foram realizadas com base nas matrizes de relações 2-mode através das medidas de densidade, centralidade e escores dos atores calculados pelo Ucinet. Os resultados confirmam o papel central da incubadora para a criação de empresas de base tecnológica; identificam que as empresas estudadas estão inseridas em redes com estrutura pouco coesas; que as relações de cooperação ocorrem mais fortemente entre universidade-empresas. Há pouca relação de troca de informação entre os empresários incubados e esses não reconhecem a relevância dos demais agentes institucionais no processo de inovação de suas empresas. As ações de cooperação são inexistentes ou ocorrem no nível informal sem relevância ao sistema inovativo das empresas. O processo de incubação se revela na possibilidade de continuidade dos projetos acadêmicos e, portanto, num distanciamento do mercado.

The present work was carried out in the Santa Maria technological incubator (ITSM), in order to analyze how the incubation process contributes to the development of the entrepreneurial characteristics, in the perception of TBC managers graduated at ITSM. Thus, the data were collected through semi-structured interviews with nine managers of graduated companies, and the questions during the interview focused on their life history, professional trajectory and incubation process and through the application of the questionnaire developed by Mansfield et al. (1987), on entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics (CCE's), with the same interview respondents.The categories of analysis defined a priori were: Incubation process and Entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics. The categories of analysis defined not a priori, based on the interviewees' reports, were: Influence of family on professional choice and Need for management knowledge. The profile of the managers participating in the survey according to the measurement made from the application of the questionnaire indicates a satisfactory level of development of the CCE’s. Through the analysis of the data collected in the interviews and in the questionnaire, it was possible to evaluate that the objective of the study has been met, since according to the perception of TBC managers graduated at ITSM, the incubation process was decisive for their enterprises sustainability and, in addition, it provided the development of these individuals as entrepreneurs. / O presente trabalho foi realizado na incubadora tecnológica de Santa Maria (ITSM), com o intuito de analisar como o processo de incubação contribui com o desenvolvimento das características empreendedoras, na percepção de gestores de EBT’s graduadas na ITSM. Assim sendo, os dados foram coletados através da realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas com nove gestores de empresas graduadas, sendo que os questionamentos abordados na entrevista tiveram foco na história de vida, trajetória profissional e processo de incubação e através da aplicação do questionário desenvolvido por Mansfield et al. (1987), sobre características comportamentais empreendedoras (CCE’s), com os mesmos respondentes das entrevistas. Para a análise dos dados, utilizou-se a técnica de análise de conteúdo das entrevistas, baseada em Bardin (2011), os questionários foram analisados qualitativamente devido ao baixo número de respondentes (nove). As categorias de análise definidas a priori foram: processo de incubação e características comportamentais empreendedoras. As categorias de análise definidas não a priori, com base nos relatos dos entrevistados, foram: influência da família na escolha profissional e necessidade de conhecimento em gestão. O perfil dos gestores participantes da pesquisa de acordo com a mensuração feita a partir da aplicação do questionário aponta um nível satisfatório de desenvolvimento das CCE’s. Através do cruzamento da análise dos dados coletados nas entrevistas e no questionário foi possível avaliar que o objetivo do estudo foi atendido, visto que, de acordo com a percepção dos gestores de EBT’s graduadas na ITSM, o processo de incubação foi decisivo para a sustentabilidade de seus empreendimentos, e, além disso, propiciou o desenvolvimento desses indivíduos como empreendedores.

Esta tese analisa os limites intrínsecos do processo de construção de conhecimentos por meio da ação educativa entre orientadores (educadores) e trabalhadores cooperados (educandos) na prática de incubação dos empreendimentos econômicos solidários. Trata-se de uma pesquisa empírica realizada com educadores de uma Incubadora Universitária de empreendimentos econômicos solidários e trabalhadores de duas cooperativas autogeridas. A maior parte do material analisado foi coletado por meio de pesquisa de campo nas cooperativas e na incubadora. No estudo, concebemos o conhecimento adquirido no processo prático de incubação de empreendimentos econômicos solidários dos trabalhadores como práxis que implica um conjunto complexo de atividades de caráter técnico e social, interagindo com conhecimento teórico e conceitual, orientados por objetivos. Trata-se por isso, de um processo pedagógico educativo que deve ser criativo, de ação coletiva e modificador da realidade. Adotamos a concepção de que os conhecimentos são produzidos neste mundo pelos próprios seres humanos e que a relação de conhecimento é uma relação entre sujeito e objeto e também que a relação com o mundo não é individual e imutável, mas coletiva e social. Como referência teórica nos apoiamos nos escritos de Freire, Cortella, Vázquez entre outros. As respostas às questões construídas ao longo do estudo evidenciam pontos positivos que representam avanços na direção da ação educativa e outros ainda de tensão e conflitos que indicam caminhos para a releitura do processo educativo, tanto para os educandos como para os educadores. Ficou evidente a importância e a necessidade da Universidade atuar por meio de incubadoras interagindo com a comunidade, levando o conhecimento de que dispõe para os trabalhadores cooperados que dificilmente teriam acesso de outra forma, bem como os efeitos positivos que advém dessa ação no meio acadêmico e para os trabalhadores. Ficou indicado também que no processo de incubação dos empreendimentos econômicos solidários dos trabalhadores há uma complexidade que demanda esforços significativos por parte dos educadores e educandos para atingir os objetivos propostos no processo de incubação, que passa necessariamente, por uma relação interativa e dialógica. Entretanto, é um processo educativo que modifica as circunstâncias, os homens e as mulheres na sua maneira de ser e agir. Há dificuldades de ambas partes, muitas barreiras que são rompidas e outras ainda não, mas é inegável a construção e reconstrução de conhecimentos para os atores envolvidos em vários aspectos. Os educadores despertam para outra forma de ver o mundo, estimula a autocrítica como educador e pessoa, enriquece e modifica a forma de ensinar e a prática da interdisciplinariedade. Estimula a associação entre ensino, pesquisa e extensão na universidade. Os educandos também mudam a forma de pensar e agir. Sentem-se mais seguros, respeitados e empoderados para interagir na sociedade. Passam a dispor de cidadania, autonomia para exercer a autogestão e melhor qualidade de vida. / This thesis analyzes the intrinsic limits of the process of construction of knowledge through the educational action among advisors (educators) and cooperated workers (scholars) in practice of incubation of the solidary economical enterprises. It is an empiric research accomplished with educators of an Academical Incubator of solidary economical enterprises and workers of two cooperatives auto managed. Most of the analyzed material was collected through field research in the cooperatives and in the incubator. In the study, we conceived the acquired knowledge in the practical process of incubation of the workers\' solidary economical enterprises as praxis that implicates a group compound of activities of technical and social character, interacting with theoretical and conceptual knowledge, guided by objectives. It is treated by that, of an educational pedagogic process that it should be creative, of collective action and modifier of the reality. We adopted the conception that the knowledge are produced in this world by the own human beings and that the knowledge relation is a relationship between subject and object and also that the relationship with the world is not individual and unalterable, but collective and social. As theoretical reference we got support on the writings of Freire, Cortella, and Vázquez among others. The answers to the subjects built along the study evidence positive points that still represent progresses in the direction of the educational and other action of tension and conflicts that indicate ways for the rereading of the educational process, so much for the students as for the educators. It was evident the importance and the need of the university to act through incubators interacting with the community, taking the knowledge that disposes for the workers cooperated that difficultly they would have access in another way, as well as the positive effects that occurs of that action in the academic midst and for the workers. It was also denoted that in the process of incubation of the workers\' solidary economical enterprises there is a complexity that demands significant efforts on the part of the educators and students to reach the objectives proposed in the incubation process, that necessarily passes, for an interactive relationship and dialogic. However, it is an educational process that modifies the circumstances, the men and the women in their way of being and acting. There are difficulties of both parts, a lot of barriers that are broken and other not yet, but it is undeniable the construction and reconstruction of knowledge for the actors involved in several aspects. The educators wake up for another form of seeing the world, it stimulates the self-criticism as educator and person, enriches and modifies the form of teaching and the practice of the interdisciplinarity. It stimulates the association among teaching, researches and extension in the university. The students also change the form of thinking and acting. They feel safer, respected and empowered to interact in the society. They start to dispose of citizenship, autonomy to exercise the automanagement and better quality of life.

Esta tese analisa os limites intrínsecos do processo de construção de conhecimentos por meio da ação educativa entre orientadores (educadores) e trabalhadores cooperados (educandos) na prática de incubação dos empreendimentos econômicos solidários. Trata-se de uma pesquisa empírica realizada com educadores de uma Incubadora Universitária de empreendimentos econômicos solidários e trabalhadores de duas cooperativas autogeridas. A maior parte do material analisado foi coletado por meio de pesquisa de campo nas cooperativas e na incubadora. No estudo, concebemos o conhecimento adquirido no processo prático de incubação de empreendimentos econômicos solidários dos trabalhadores como práxis que implica um conjunto complexo de atividades de caráter técnico e social, interagindo com conhecimento teórico e conceitual, orientados por objetivos. Trata-se por isso, de um processo pedagógico educativo que deve ser criativo, de ação coletiva e modificador da realidade. Adotamos a concepção de que os conhecimentos são produzidos neste mundo pelos próprios seres humanos e que a relação de conhecimento é uma relação entre sujeito e objeto e também que a relação com o mundo não é individual e imutável, mas coletiva e social. Como referência teórica nos apoiamos nos escritos de Freire, Cortella, Vázquez entre outros. As respostas às questões construídas ao longo do estudo evidenciam pontos positivos que representam avanços na direção da ação educativa e outros ainda de tensão e conflitos que indicam caminhos para a releitura do processo educativo, tanto para os educandos como para os educadores. Ficou evidente a importância e a necessidade da Universidade atuar por meio de incubadoras interagindo com a comunidade, levando o conhecimento de que dispõe para os trabalhadores cooperados que dificilmente teriam acesso de outra forma, bem como os efeitos positivos que advém dessa ação no meio acadêmico e para os trabalhadores. Ficou indicado também que no processo de incubação dos empreendimentos econômicos solidários dos trabalhadores há uma complexidade que demanda esforços significativos por parte dos educadores e educandos para atingir os objetivos propostos no processo de incubação, que passa necessariamente, por uma relação interativa e dialógica. Entretanto, é um processo educativo que modifica as circunstâncias, os homens e as mulheres na sua maneira de ser e agir. Há dificuldades de ambas partes, muitas barreiras que são rompidas e outras ainda não, mas é inegável a construção e reconstrução de conhecimentos para os atores envolvidos em vários aspectos. Os educadores despertam para outra forma de ver o mundo, estimula a autocrítica como educador e pessoa, enriquece e modifica a forma de ensinar e a prática da interdisciplinariedade. Estimula a associação entre ensino, pesquisa e extensão na universidade. Os educandos também mudam a forma de pensar e agir. Sentem-se mais seguros, respeitados e empoderados para interagir na sociedade. Passam a dispor de cidadania, autonomia para exercer a autogestão e melhor qualidade de vida. / This thesis analyzes the intrinsic limits of the process of construction of knowledge through the educational action among advisors (educators) and cooperated workers (scholars) in practice of incubation of the solidary economical enterprises. It is an empiric research accomplished with educators of an Academical Incubator of solidary economical enterprises and workers of two cooperatives auto managed. Most of the analyzed material was collected through field research in the cooperatives and in the incubator. In the study, we conceived the acquired knowledge in the practical process of incubation of the workers\' solidary economical enterprises as praxis that implicates a group compound of activities of technical and social character, interacting with theoretical and conceptual knowledge, guided by objectives. It is treated by that, of an educational pedagogic process that it should be creative, of collective action and modifier of the reality. We adopted the conception that the knowledge are produced in this world by the own human beings and that the knowledge relation is a relationship between subject and object and also that the relationship with the world is not individual and unalterable, but collective and social. As theoretical reference we got support on the writings of Freire, Cortella, and Vázquez among others. The answers to the subjects built along the study evidence positive points that still represent progresses in the direction of the educational and other action of tension and conflicts that indicate ways for the rereading of the educational process, so much for the students as for the educators. It was evident the importance and the need of the university to act through incubators interacting with the community, taking the knowledge that disposes for the workers cooperated that difficultly they would have access in another way, as well as the positive effects that occurs of that action in the academic midst and for the workers. It was also denoted that in the process of incubation of the workers\' solidary economical enterprises there is a complexity that demands significant efforts on the part of the educators and students to reach the objectives proposed in the incubation process, that necessarily passes, for an interactive relationship and dialogic. However, it is an educational process that modifies the circumstances, the men and the women in their way of being and acting. There are difficulties of both parts, a lot of barriers that are broken and other not yet, but it is undeniable the construction and reconstruction of knowledge for the actors involved in several aspects. The educators wake up for another form of seeing the world, it stimulates the self-criticism as educator and person, enriches and modifies the form of teaching and the practice of the interdisciplinarity. It stimulates the association among teaching, researches and extension in the university. The students also change the form of thinking and acting. They feel safer, respected and empowered to interact in the society. They start to dispose of citizenship, autonomy to exercise the automanagement and better quality of life.