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sector; among other impacts is the demand of professionals training with knowl-
edge excellence.
When well planned and structured, the impact of the Technology Park in local
and regional economy, traditionally associated with a productive sector, promotes
a considerable boost in the region. It is noteworthy that the impacts generated by
the implementation of a Technology Park should be measured over the long-term.
It serves as the bridge between research and production in the process of
transforming the local economy, playing a decisive role to leverage the state's
development by introducing in academic field, the demands of society and pro-
ductive sector and, at the same time, responding to these demands (Aranha 2010 ).
In a city that has no more physical space for the installation of large industries,
a Technology Park is an alternative to diversify the local economy and prevent its
stagnation.
Brazil's position on the current world scenario and the supply of resources that
characterizes the current moment of national economy, however, should be seen as
a friendly warning that calls for the construction of a new model. In this new
model, entrepreneurs, managers of innovation habitats, fund managers, and

investors themselves need to reexamine their performance.
A possible strategy is to stimulate self-sustainable incubators and parks, which
are those who are financially viable, besides the effectiveness to achieve their goals
by optimizing resources and results. Only self-sustainable parks or incubators can
be considered effective and with good prospects of becoming perennial.
Self-sustainable incubators and parks should be managed and financed as pri-
vate companies. They are born of a conjunction between entrepreneurs, venture
capital and corporations, and must have a manager or director who participates as a
venture partner, sharing the enterprise risk: if the business fails, these actors are
subject to loss of investment, but if succeed, will participate in the obtained
financial return (Frick 2010 ).

5 A New Profile for Innovation Actors

An initiative of SEBRAE and ANPROTEC developed between the years 2008 and
2009 allowed tostart the building process of a performance model for the incu-
bators, what received the name of Centro de Referência para Apoio a Novos
Empreendedores—CERNE (reference center to support new entrepreneurs). The
main objective was defined as to provide an important change in quantity and
quality of their efforts in support of entrepreneurship. 11
The implementation of the project led to the conjunct definition along with the
incubators

themselves, of a reference model containing ''the key systems,

11 Modelo de Referência para apoio a novos empreendimentos. Publicação (s.d) da ANPROTEC
e SEBRAE.