Unicamp's Technology-Based Business Incubator (Incamp) has just launched its 2023 notice to receive proposals from entrepreneurs and startups from across the country who wish to train in its pre-incubation and incubation programs. The evaluation panel defines which program each project fits into, depending on the maturity of each proposal and team or entrepreneur.
In addition to defining their proposed service, product or innovative process that requires training and support from the Incubator, candidates must also define whether or not they wish to be installed in person in a laboratory, office or co-working position within the available spaces in the buildings of the Unicamp Scientific and Technological Park, located on the Campinas campus.
The notice is open to startups and people interested in undertaking technology-based projects in all areas of knowledge, without the need to have had a link with Unicamp, as explained by Mariana Zanatta Inglez, manager of Unicamp's Scientific and Technological Park and its Incubator :
“To be incubated at Incamp, the candidate does not need to be a former student or student at Unicamp. The Incubator is open to any entrepreneur in the country who has as a project or enterprise a proposal for a technology-based company with an innovative product, process or service, that is, with a difference in the market and which is based on scientific and technological development. This is what justifies staying at the Incubator and receiving support for up to three years”, explains Zanatta Inglez about the programs, which vary, depending on each project, from six months to three years.
Approved entrepreneurs or startups will be trained in different areas of company training, such as marketing and management, by the team at Innovation Agency Innovates Unicamp, which manages the Park, and also by the teams from Sebrae (Brazilian Support Service for Micro and Small Businesses) and FEBRAEC (Brazilian Federation of Consulting and Training Companies), which are Incamp partners. For the evaluation panel on March 14th and 15th, the notice will receive proposals until February 28th, 2023.
The registration fee to submit each proposal is R$350,00. Finalist projects in the Inova Unicamp business modeling competitions (Desafio Unicamp and Inova Jovem) and former students of the Inova entrepreneurship discipline (with codes AM037 or TP386) are exempt from paying the registration fee, as long as they present a document proving the participation in the final stage of the competition and completion of the discipline.
To find out more about the notice, how to submit your proposals and the values, access the page from Incamp on the Park website.
07/02: Webinar “answers questions” about the Incamp notice
With the purpose of explaining how Incamp's incubation programs work and presenting the notice to candidates, Inova Unicamp and the Scientific and Technological Park are open for free registration for a dialogue about the Incubator's notice with startups and interested people.
Within the program, interested parties will be able to ask questions and present their incubation ideas to assess whether they meet the necessary requirements.
Free event: How to incubate your project or company in the Unicamp incubator?
Day: February 7rd, 2023
Registrations: Zoom Platform
Agenda:
10:00: Presentation of the INCAMP Incubation Program
10:30: Explanation of the Notice and incubation contract
11:00: Question-answering round
12:00: Closing ceremony
