“…The number of researches on IMPs supported by Finep (2010) is small, but this number started to increase after the implementation in 2014 (Zen et al, 2014). Research works such as the Innovation Route (Zen, Machado, Jaramillo López, Borges, & Callegaro-de-Menezes, 2017), NUGIN Methodology (D' Barsoles, Iata, & Lezana, 2017;Feuerschütte, da Cunha Lemos, Hoffmann, & Fernandes, 2017), Pró-Inova Seridó Region (Santos, Motta, Luna, Barbosa, Brito, Nunes, & Romero, 2014), Matrix JOIN (Brandao, da Silva Gomes, & Segundo, 2015) and Model of Two Wheels (Bagno, & Faria, 2017) focus on describing the IMPs methodology and benefits.…”