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Abstract Purpose: This article analyzes companies’ absorptive capacity and innovation actions incubated in the Agribusiness Incubator of Cooperatives, Community Organizations, Associations, and Rural Settlements of the Semiarid Region of Paraíba (Iacoc). Originality/value: The value of this research is the validation of the literature and the process’ effectiveness of fostering incubators with incubated enterprises, whose transfer of resources/knowledge can generate innovation. We present the theoretical relationship between absorptive capacity and innovation actions in the context of incubated enterprises, inspiring management practices for different types of innovation, including in specific contexts, such as agribusiness. Design/methodology/approach: We carried out a qualitative multicase study whose analysis focused on six projects incubated at Iacoc. Documentary research and semi-structured interviews with the leading managers were used, and the ATLAS.ti software processed the data. Subsequent content analysis framed the data into four main categories: absorptive capacity combined with the product, marketing, process, and organizational innovations. Findings: Results show that the analyzed projects presented advancements from the absorptive capacity realized, with the generation of innovations in management and planning, people management, the direction of production techniques, product design characteristics, and access to markets. We argue that the theoretical association of the field of absorptive capacity and innovation in the context of incubated enterprises can trigger substantial gains for the thematic area and the actors of innovation ecosystems: the capture of knowledge by companies, innovation actions, the transformation of those involved in the initiatives and socioeconomic impact.

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