An evaluation of the Brazilian business incubators innovation

Abstract

The business incubators are considered an environment that collaborates to the creation and development of companies, especially the ones which present innovator character and an intensive intellectual content. To evaluate the main mechanisms used by the Brazilian business incubators to measure the innovation, this paper describes a study including various Brazilian institutions. This research focused aspects such as type of innovation developed by the companies in the business incubators, the types of partnerships with other research centers, the courses developed or administered in the innovation area, beyond the traditional innovation performance indicators used by the companies, for example, number of patents and R&D statistics. Based on the information provided by some Brazilian business incubators, it was possible to analyze the best Brazilian regions in innovation measurement, the main types of partnerships and others.