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INNOVATION CENTERS
They are environments created for promote and support the innovative entrepreneurship, helping to create and expand innovative businesses.
They offer services that support the entrepreneur from the moment the business is just an idea until the moment he is ready to face the market, grow and climb. The Centers also want to encourage the insertion of a culture of innovation in companies in their region and connect startups and entrepreneurs with consolidated companies and other important players.
To operationalize these objectives, have services like pre-incubation of companies, incubaçao, acceleration, coworking, maker space, space for events and training, space for P&D, marketplace, One Stop Shop, connection with financial institutions and investors and so on.

CONNECT WITH THE ECOSYSTEM
You can access the most diverse actors of the local ecosystem as startups, technology companies, institutions, researchers, mentors, investors, talents and more.
The Innovation Centers work to unite the different local actors in their ecosystem and, still, connect the local ecosystem to other ecosystems in the state through the Santa Catarina Innovation Center Network. Besides that, work to connect the local ecosystem to strategic ecosystems around the world.

HOW CAN I PART?
Understand what opportunities you can find in the Centers according to your profile. See which Center nearest you or the profile of Center and region interests you.
Once you are connected to the Center and the ecosystem, the opportunities are endless. Below we list some concrete possibilities that may be useful to your business or career.

If you represent a company of any size already in the market and understand that innovating means surviving, it is essential that it is connected with innovation ecosystems.
At the Centers you can access opportunities ranging from hiring innovative solutions for your business to attracting talent for your company. See some possibilities:
- Install your Laboratory P&D or your innovation team in the building
- Install a team from an innovative project or spin off of your company in the building - Innovative Projects of Established Companies
- Open your technological challenge to startups in partnership with the Center - Open Innovation
- Meet startups or other innovative companies that can contribute to your business - Incubator, Accelerator, Coworking
- Develop, prototype, test products on Maker Space
- Find professionals, researchers, inventors who can solve your business problems
- Advice on various management topics, market etc
- Advice on topics of Intellectual property e Technology transfer
- Take your Events to the Center
- Enable your team's participation in Events and training offered by the Center, including as a strategy to insert them into the ecosystem
- Perform Talent Marketplace specific to your company
- Networking – Just being in the Center for a coffee, you can already benefit
- Search for trainers and fill their vacancies phase
Centers functions related to this profile:
- P&D
- Innovative Projects of Established Companies
- Open Innovation
- Incubator
- Accelerator
- Coworking
- Maker Space

As an investor you can access the Center manager to learn about the companies and projects resident in the Centers and request the organization of meetings to meet the entrepreneurs and products of these businesses.
Centers functions related to this profile:
- Investor Access
- Access to Credit
- Guarantee and Guarantees
- Negotiation Intermediation
- Marketplace Investments

If you are a startup looking for support to grow or even get off the ground, the Center was designed for you. You can enjoy all the services and activities that the Center offers.
Centers functions related to this profile:
- Coworking
- Pre-incubator
- Physical or Virtual Incubator
- Accelerator
- Climber
- Maker Space
- Intellectual property
- Open Innovation
- Partnership with P Projects&D from established companies
- Socialization of Ideas
- Investor Access
- Access to Credit
- Networking
- Events
- Formation

Coworking / Pre-incubator
Events / Formation
Networking / Maker Space

Formation
Guidance
phase
Talent Marketplace
Pre-incubator
Maker Space

Pre-incubator (transform an idea into a business model)
Events
Formation
Networking
Innovation Centers

A state.
Many forces.
A goal:
Transforming Santa Catarina
in the State of Innovation

The Pact is a movement of entities that promote science, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship and education in the state and who want to make Santa Catarina the state of knowledge and innovation.
The movement's central strategy is to join forces and direct resources (financial and non-financial) to accelerate the development of innovation ecosystem and the new economy in Santa Catarina.
Motivation: Integrate ecosystem actors and converge efforts in one direction. As an actor who relates to many entities and companies and receives many demands, the Government clearly sees the need for ecosystem actors and their resources to converge towards a common goal. It is about replacing dispute for collaboration, sum of efforts for duplicated and disconnected actions. More effective and cheaper results instead of unilateral actions. Especially in a scenario of scarcity of public resources (and private) for investment, intelligent use of resources and collaboration are priorities.
The Innovation Pact, in line with the project
of the Network of Centers, have among your concerns:

in the economy
of knowledge


Axes of Operation
performance and that fall into one of these four axes:

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ATTRACTION OF
INVESTMENTS

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INFRASTRUCTURE

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COLLABORATION