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This incubator supports popular cooperatives for creating livelihoods and income generating opportunities for poor and disadvantaged people, particularly women. The program is managed by Fundação COPPETEC (COPPETEC Foundation) and the Technology Transfer Office of COPPE/UFRJ. ITCP was founded in 1996 with an agreement between COPPE/UFRJ, FINEP (Brazilian Innovation Agency) and the Fundação Banco do Brasil (Bank of Brazil Foundation) in response to growing unemployment in Brazil. Since its creation, ITCP has contributed directly to creating more than 1,200 new livelihoods and jobs in Rio de Janeiro. ITCP has its own facilities with 400 square meters of building space located on the university campus.