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components and practices that an incubator must implement to systematically
generate a growing number of successful innovative businesses.'' 12
The model led to the identification of four levels of maturity to be achieved in
future by the incubators, being the goals of each, from minor to major, the fol-
lowing ones:

CERNE 1: To professionalize the generation process of innovative

entrepreneurships.
CERNE 2: To improve internal processes of prospection for demand and supply of
innovative projects, strategic planning, and attendance to associate companies.
CERNE 3: To strengthen the partners' network in order to increase the insertion
into the regional system, implement a system of distance incubation, and estab-
lishing a network of experts.
CERNE 4: To implement an innovation management system, to be supplemented
with other information security systems, environmental management, and social
responsibility.

The CERNE is still under discussion by the various actors in all habitats of
innovation. And it is extremely important that occurs as an effective implemen-
tation at each stage as an initial step toward the consolidation of institutions
capable of promoting the rapprochement of venture capital (venture capital and
private equity).
The table below lists some of the activities envisaged under CERNE according
to investment funds requirements (Castro 2010 ).
Table 1 summarizes the support measures of general nature. It is also important
to complement with the discussion of other actions to be implemented by incu-
bators, accelerators, and managers of technology parks. The ultimate goal is to
reach the concept of profitable or self-sustaining incubators.

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