PETROBRAS TECHNOLOGICAL INCUBATOR PROGRAM Technology-based corporate incubator services, or simply technology incubators, are stimulating flexible environments where a series of facilities are offered to create and foster new business. The incubators generally house small technology-related companies, providing administrative, technical and commercial support. Good ideas become processes, products and services in this environment. Thanks to agreements between private and government companies, the technology incubators have become a place where two industrial worlds meet: technology and business. Incubators mean new jobs, more tax revenue, skilled labor and top quality products and services. The Petrobras Technology Incubator Program endeavors to help form technology companies to make the industrial and service sectors more competitive. Objectives of the Petrobras Technology Incubator Program: To develop new goods or services based on the regional vocation. To provide solutions for processes, products, byproducts, equipment and services in the oil industry. To help create jobs. New business leverage. The 11 incubators in which Petrobras is involved are joint ventures between several public and private institutions. Sebrae (*) – Brazilian Support Services for the Micro and Small Company. Local and federal government agencies Anprotec (*)(available only in Portuguese) - Brazilian association for fostering technology incubators and centers . Trade and manufacturing associations Universities and research institutes Workers unions In addition to its current partners all over Brazil, according to the specific features of each, Petrobras would like other institutions to participate in this program. These incubators may operate on an intramural basis - in premises inside the company’s operating plants – or on an extramural basis, in premises assigned by another institution. They are as follows: INTRAMURAL EXTRAMURAL In operation Incubadora Tecnológica de São Mateus do Sul Technology Incubator Service (ITS) [Incubadora Tecnológica de São Mateus do Sul], São Mateus do Sul, Paraná state Macuripe Technology Incubator Service (Pier-Macuripe), Fortaleza, Ceará Betim Technology Incubator Service [Incubadora Tecnológica de Betim (Itebe), Betim, Minas Gerais Porto Alegre Business Technology Service (Ietec), Rio Grande do Sul. Coppe/UFRJ Corporate Incubator Service, Rio de Janeiro-RJ Canoas Technology Business Service (Iecan), Rio Grande do Sul ETFRN Technology Incubation Center, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte In process of organization / planning Bahia Oilfield Region Incubator, Greater Salvador, Bahia Ulbra Technology Incubator Service, Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul Polovale III Technology Incubator Service, in São José dos Campos, São Paulo Itajubá Engineering School Technology Incubator Service Minas Gerais Coordinator for the Technology Incubator Program Rubens Eduardo Medeiros Novicki Tel.: (42) 520-7100 Fax (42) 520-7105 e-mail: novicki@petrobras.com.br Petrobras/Six – Rodovia BR476 Km 143 CEP: 83900-000 São Mateus do Sul – PR – Brasil (*) This link leads to an address outside the Petrobras system. Petrobras accepts no responsibility whatsoever for the contents thereof, nor for the privacy policies or practices of the websites to which it provides links.