The Regional Incubator of Popular Cooperatives of the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, performs for approximately 10 years the incubation of self-managed solidary entrepreneurships with people of low income in different regions of São Paulo State, developing articulated activities of teaching, research and extension - the latter understood as part of the production of knowledge through the transformation of knowledge in human conduct.

The term called Solidary Economy designates in Brazil a social movement which has been growing for the last 15 years and includes a large and diverse set of social actors. It mainly focuses the needs of people socially disadvantaged or at social risk and aims, however, not only generation of income and economic changes but social and cultural changes toward a more egalitarian and solidary society.

University solidary entrepreneurships incubators, emphasizing transferring knowledge through technology, were born in Brazil in the 90s and today there are at least two networks of this type of initiative. In one of them, the Rede de Incubadoras Tecnológicas de Cooperativas Populares (ITCPs) Popular Cooperatives (TIPCs) there are more than 30 of them associated.