Learning Incubator: an instrument to foster entrepreneurship in Nursing.

Objective: this study aimed to know the contributions of the Learning Incubator to the process of lifelong education in health.

Method: this is a qualitative field research whose data was collected from August to December 2014 by the focus group technique. The research had 34 employees of a Teaching Hospital in the central region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul that participated previously in the incubation process.