Learning Processes of Incubation Next to Incubators of Solidarity Economic Enterprises (SEE) in Central Western of Brazil: the Challenges of Self-Management in Hetero-Management Institutions

Objective: Analyze the challenges of self-management in heteromanagement institutions, which are Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) that develop incubation processes with Solidarity Economic Enterprises (EES). Theoretical Framework: It is guided in light of the concepts of Solidarity Economy: Singer (2002); popular education: Freire (1996); Brandão (1984); self-management: Mothé, (2009) and social technology: Dagnino (2010, 2014), which dialogue with the inter and transdisciplinary proposal of Tenório's (2006) concept of social management. Method: This is a participatory qualitative research that used questionnaires, interviews, conversation circles and field notebook notes as tools. The analysis focuses on the profile of the incubators and the incubated EES, the relationship between the incubators and the internal public: teachers, technicians and students and with the external public: the incubated EES. Results and Discussion: The results show that the incubation processes of EES involve a large plurality of empirical manifestations and that the logic of the Solidarity Economy and the practice of self-management have developed social technologies and learning that involve a transformative praxis, which, if not responds to all the challenges created by modernity, at least it can solve problems of social development through a collective logic. Research Implications: The results show a strong capacity for socio-productive inclusion, income generation and sustainable local development. Originality/Value: The contributes to self-management practices, also within the university, by promoting the articulation between teaching and research, helping to overcome the reductionist view of science in academia.