www.ijird.com June, 2017 Vol 6 Issue 6 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT DOI No. : 10.24940/ijird/2017/v6/i6/JUN17081 Page 73 Business Incubators in the Triple Helix Model: An Example in Brazilian Southeastern 1. Introduction In this work, it is proposed to launch an investigative look at the contribution of a higher education institution as a link between the agents that form the triple helix in the Valley of the Electronics, in the south of the State of Minas Gerais. Its main objective was to describe and analyze the trajectory and results of its incubator. To this end, the Triple Helix Model (TH) was used as a conceptual instrument capable of providing an understanding of the existence of a common locus that drives the convergence of ideas, actions and looks directed at the shared and cooperative practices of a set of Public and private agents, aligned with the greater objective of the construction of the socioeconomic development, of the perenniality and of the progress of the communities in which they are established. Among the opinions of specialists (Gem, 2015, p.91) was the need for greater demands on the training and preparation process of students in universities, with more teachers and coaching, less memorization and multiple choice tests, more Reading and discussion and less repetition and standardization, much more entrepreneurship than studying content of little use after graduation. Thus, this research is justified by the effort to verify and bring to the public, above all those responsible for creating curricula of technical schools and higher education institutions in the engineering areas, the results of INATEL's entrepreneurship program as an initiative and Successful practice aligned with the recommendations of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (Gem, 2015). In this context, the Triple Helix (TH) model allows us to understand socio-economic systems as constructions originated in accordance with the principles of reciprocity, redistribution and domesticity, as proposed by economics historian Karl Polanyi (2000). For this thinker, such principles were historically institutionalized with "... the help of a social organization which ... used the standards of symmetry, centrality and autarchy" (Polanyi, 2000). This approach sought to account for the richness of interpellations and to emphasize the interweaving of the three spheres - public power, educational institutions and the general society, made up of individuals, organizations and enterprises - with a common purpose in conceiving, reinventing and Meet human needs, through technologies that rationalize the consumption of finite natural resources, and lessen nature. ISSN 2278 – 0211 (Online) Antônio Honorato de Oliveira Professor, Engineering and Administration, Sao Paulo State University, São Paulo, Brazil Fernando Augusto Silva Marins Teacher/Advisor, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Sao Paulo State University, São Paulo, Brazil Maurício César Delamaro Teacher/ Co-advisor, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Sao Paulo State University, São Paulo, Brazil Abstract: This article reports the specific contribution of a higher education institution active in the engineering areas, as a link between the members of the triple helix constitutions in the Electronics Valley. It presents the trajectory and the results of an incubator of companies constituted as an integral part of the entrepreneurship nucleus of the teaching institution object of the research. Through exploratory, descriptive, documentary and field research, reciprocity is perceived between the educational agent, the technological pole and the community present in the environment. The results of this work point to the existence of theoretical and practical learning aimed at entrepreneurship in the study institution, the incubator trajectory and the performance of the incubation program, whose survival rate is above the national average. However, there is a decrease in the incubation movement registered in recent years, and the discontinuity of a significant number of incubators in Brazil shows a decline in the face of growing economies. In fact, it was verified in the research that the occupation of the spaces destined to the incubation of companies of the incubator was limited to half of its effective capacity. The incubator relationships were identified in the triple- helix model by means of the insertion of graduated companies. It was also observed in the incubation processes the preponderance of the activities of creation of new businesses on the researches directed to the innovations. The university- enterprise interface was perceived as a little discussed issue in the literature consulted. The need for efforts by the academic community aimed at this construct is instigated by this aspect. Keywords: Business incubator, economics, entrepreneurial learning, innovation, technological poles, triple helix model