The Tecnopuc Startups – Business Incubator of PUCRS, aims at promoting and enforcing the entrepreneurial vision of the PUCRS community. Through a number of different actions, Tecnopuc Startups supports business projects, as it provides advice and infrastructure, and makes them competitive enterprises and primes them up for the market. (Website in Portuguese)
It offers opportunities for the development of newborn companies that seek to address existing problems and generate social and business impact, through new models of operation or disruptive technologies. Technology-oriented and social impact startups are eligible for it: products that are being developed in certain projects, new technological services or processes or significant technological improvements in existing products or processes.