ITCP - Technological Incubator of Popular Cooperatives of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Brazil

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Contacts	Gonçalo Guimarães itcp@itcp.coppe.ufrj.br http://www.itcp.coppe.ufrj.br
Objectives	Entrepreneurship Awareness Income Generation Job Creation Policy Impact Profitable Enterprises
Description	The Technological Incubator for Popular Cooperatives (Incubadora Tecnológica de Cooperativas Populares – ITCP) is a university sponsored initiative run by the Engineering Post-Graduate and Research Coordination at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – COPPE/UFRJ, which has had, since 1995, as its primary objective the inclusion of economically marginalized sectors of the economy within the formal system. Centered on strengthening cooperativism, as well as involved in the field of economic development in general, the ITCP has also helped put forward new public policies and dedicated a significant proportion of its time and effort to the search for a solution to the new relations existing in the global workplace and the affirmation of citizen’s rights. Since its conception, the ITCP has helped, by means of cooperativism, to include not only those who have been falling gradually behind the market within this new national conjuncture, but also, and especially those who historically have never been part of it. In addition to assisting in market inclusion, the ITCP aims to promote, through work, popular organization and to create a network of solidarity that represents a solution or response to the model of exclusion present in the economy, thus generating alternatives for work, income and citizenship through communal self-reliant enterprises, which in turn broaden the rights of those workers involved
Interests	Selective Collection and Recycling - Vegetable Oil Recycling Program for Social Inclusion and Environment Protection The Vegetable Oil Recycling Program (PROVE) encourages the reuse of waste vegetable oil in the production of biodiesel, as a way to work for environment preservation and protection. The Technological Incubator of Popular Cooperatives provides advice to cooperatives participating in the PROVE, assisting them in their administrative organization, political articulation and logistics for vegetable oil collection, implemented in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. - Recycling UFRJ The objective of the Project Recycling UFRJ is organize the system of selective collection of waste in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in order to allow the reuse of waste and strengthen popular cooperatives of collectors, in line with the Presidential Decree number 5940 of October 25, 2006. Building a Mental Health Entrepreneur’s Network The Technological Incubator of Popular Cooperatives project aims the social (re)integration of users of the mental health system, seeking to strengthen the experiences of employment and income generation projects in this field, through qualification of mental health technicians across Brazil and the creation of a network of social enterprises coming from the public mental health system. The creation of a mental health entrepreneur’s network by ITCP COPPE UFRJ seeks the exchange of knowledge and ideas, the increasing of their economic viability and the dissemination of the issue of psychiatric reform and social inclusion of people with mental disorders through work. Tourism The tourism sector is considered, in the world economy, one of the economic activities with a greater capacity for expansion. In this context, the Ministry of Tourism developed a partnership with the Technological Incubator of Popular Cooperatives (ITCP COPPE UFRJ), under the Project of Incubation for s and Community Organization in the Chain of Tourism: development in the city of Paraty (RJ) and Armação de Búzios (RJ). Seeking sustainable local development in the tourism production chain, ITCP COPPE UFRJ has been working with local solidarity economics enterprise like tourist guide, boatman, artisans and others. Local development - Watershed Project Empower technical implementers to promote sustainable management of natural resources was just the point-of-departure of Technology Incubator of Popular Cooperatives (ITCP COPPE UFRJ), in a multidisciplinary program, known informally as "Watershed Project", developed by the Secretary of Agriculture and Fisheries of Rio de Janeiro in partnership with the World Bank, through the Global Environment Facility. The objective of this project is to promote community organizing for sustainable self management of natural resources by rural communities using the watersheds as the unit of planning. - Transfer of technology fot the implantation of an incubator of popular enterprise - Namialo Technology Center – Mozambique ITCP COPPE UFRJ has been transferring incubation technology for deployment of a Incubator in order to foster cooperativism, seeking sustainable local development in Namialo Technology Center – Mozambique.
Services	Facilities: ICT services Facilities: Office space Facilities: Shared workshops Finance: Financial management training Finance: Linkages to financiers Incubation and Business Development: Business information Incubation and Business Development: Business management and development advisory services Incubation and Business Development: Incubation program for non-resident clients (virtual incubation) Incubation and Business Development: Incubation program for resident clients Incubation and Business Development: Mentoring/coaching Incubation and Business Development: Pre-incubation services Incubation and Business Development: Training in business management International Business Services: Help entering particular markets International Business Services: Trade facilitation Networks and Synergy: Facilitation of linkages between incubates Networks and Synergy: Networking events Networks and Synergy: Referrals to business professionals Technology Transfer: Help with commercializing technology
Year Opened	1995
Type	Academic (This incubator is associated with a technology park)
Model	Not-for-profit
Sectors	ICTs
Target Population	Rural poor Urban poor
Advocacy	This organization actively works to improve innovation and entrepreneurship policy and regulation

Technological Incubator of Popular Cooperatives of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ITCP (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

22 May 2008 | More

Incubation Methodology for Popular Cooperatives: An ITCP/UFRJ Proposal

Portuguese version (Metodologia de Incubação de Cooperativas Populares: A proposta da ITCP/UFRJ)

18 March 2008 | This paper presents the basis of the methodology proposed by the Technological Incubator of Popular Cooperatives (ITCP). The objective of the paper is to feature general guidelines related with the process of incubation of popular coperatives, so that they can... More

Courses: Easy Internet and Easy Informatics for Cooperatives, by ITCP COOPE UFRJ, Brazil

7 May 2008 | More

The Integrated System of Management (SIG-IncubCoope)

13 March 2008 | More

Popular Cooperatives Portal by Brazil ITCP

13 December 2007 | More

Space

	Business Incubator	Technopark
Buildings	5
sq.m. available in total
sq.m used for incubator services/admin
sq.m. rented by client firms

Clients

	On-Site	Off-Site
	Business Incubator
Number of client firms	1	54
Number of employees in client firms	3	700

Graduation

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Total*
Total client firms	0	0	0	0	0	0		0
Total employees in client firms	0	0	0	0	0	0		0

Graduation

	2006	Total*
Number of graduated firms	20	20
Number of employees in graduated firms	300	300
Companies still in operation 3 years after graduation	15	15

*since beginning of incubator operation

Note: Does not keep track of the companies graduated

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