Employment legislation in universities falls within the remit of the federal government even for state universities which are still funded at the federal level. The consequence is that often academics are only offered an acknowledgement as co-workers for a project. An alternative model considered in the incubator in the state university of Morelos is for a university to pay the teachers to incubate innovation-based projects to provide incentives for academics to get involved in translate ideas from the universities into profitable businesses as part of developing an entrepreneurial culture.