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Entrepreneurial ecosystems have received increased attention both in academia and from policymakers. Higher education institutions are considered among the most impactful organizations in entrepreneurial ecosstems and active stakeholders in the regional provision of support activities towards the creation of new ventures, becoming entrepreneurial universities. There is still room for learning from case studies, especially when focused on leading universities closely connected to regional entrepreneurial ecosystems. This is the case of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Thus, the focus was in describing the role of this university, through its offer of a wide variety of entrepreneurial activities in the Utrecht region's entrepreneurial ecosystem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates how entrepreneurs manage uncertainty and learning in partnerships between startups and large firms. Using a qualitative longitudinal retrospective methodology, including documentary analysis and multiple case studies, it explores the processes entrepreneurs use to handle perceived uncertainty during such partnerships. The results show that entrepreneurs employ various strategies to frame uncertainty as either an opportunity or threat, identify barriers in open innovation partnerships, and learn through uncertainty management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The discussion delves into the entrepreneurial education experience at the University of Texas-Austin, aiming to extend comprehension beyond formal courses and programs. It incorporates the impact of collective practices involving objects, students, teachers, and staff. Drawing on the Actor-Network Theory, the paper presents results from a case study conducted between June 2022 and April 2023, providing partial insights into the context in which UT-Austin and its programs operate. The theoretical contribution illustrates entrepreneurship education as a phenomenon encompassing a broad network of actors and diverse relationships, generating effects not confined by formalized intentions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At a time when the implementation of the New Secondary School (NEM) is being debated, this research aimed to understand how entrepreneurship education (EE), one of the structuring axes of the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC), was contemplated in the curricula of Brazilian public schools. A documental analysis of the new curricular references of all Brazilian states was carried out. High heterogeneity was observed in the approach adopted to address entrepreneurship and in the level of detail of the documents. Notably, of the twenty-seven Brazilian federative units, twelve detailed the objectives of the entrepreneurship structuring axis and the paths related to EE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aims to analyze the effectiveness of innovation events promoted in the western region of Santa Catarina. Data collection was based on semi-structured interviews and questionnaires, with a sample of 140 respondents. The results indicate the lack of engagement among the actors of the observed innovation ecosystem, many idealized startups cannot be made viable due to lack of structure, investments and even partner engagement. In general, the events promote mobilization for the local entrepreneurial culture, however, the ecosystem lacks maturity to increase the effectiveness of startups idealized in innovation events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzed the practices implemented for entrepreneurial training in Basic Education in the public schools of the state of Sergipe. That was adopted a qualitative and interpretive approach, the semistructured interview as a data collection instrument and the technique of content analysis by category. The results indicated that the first steps were taken towards entrepreneurial training in Basic Education in the state, but it is not possible to say that there was an implementation in its entirety, since there was a significant heterogeneity of the implemented practices, absence of monitoring and control of the school administration and public manager. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sharing economy is a recent phenomenon that has emerged due to its growing expansion in the market and in the media. The objective is to present the perception of stakeholders about collaborative stores in the city of São Paulo. Collaborative stores are retail structures engaged in the shared economy. The research is exploratory, qualitative, and multiple case study. Eight interviews were conducted with semi-structured questions with stakeholders. It was concluded that collaborative stores are structures that foster entrepreneurship, especially for managers of small businesses or individual entrepreneurs, serving as a laboratory for the development of small brands and products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study seeks to measure the economic impact of Brazil's Cultural Incentive Policy. This study uses the input-output matrix methodology for the incentives offered for projects in 2017, which is the most recent data available. A total of 1,258,740 records were extracted for this analysis. The following cultural sectors' production chains were analyzed: scenic arts, visual arts, audiovisual arts, the humanities, music, and cultural heritage. As a result, a total economic impact of 198 million dollars was recorded for projects in 2017. The results indicate how this investment fosters cultural entrepreneurship and its supply chains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding under which conditions the entrepreneurial spirit excels refers to aspects related to Entrepreneurship Education. The adoption of pedagogical models that make the teaching of entrepreneurship attractive to undergraduates represents a necessary procedure aimed at their training and encouraging entrepreneurship in the academy. The aim of the study is to describe how Administration students perceive and evaluate Entrepreneurship Education in the academic training process. The research has a quantitative approach, descriptive nature and used the survey. It was possible to identify those students have an entrepreneurial profile and recognize the importance of Entrepreneurship Education in academic and professional training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to recognize the entrepreneurial competencies of owners of accounting services companies. The research, descriptive in nature, had a quantitative approach, applying a self-completion questionnaire based on the McClelland model (1973), which highlights the entrepreneurial competencies in the sets of achievement, planning, and Power. The respondents were 364 owners of accounting service companies located in the State of Santa Catarina. The results showed that the search for opportunity competence was the one that stood out the most in the achievement set. In the planning set, systematic planning and monitoring predominated. Finally, in the power set, the competence with the highest average was persuasion and networking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research aimed to analyze the connection of the innovation ecosystem of Rio Grande do Sul. In the methodology, a qualitative approach was adopted, with a case study protocol. As final considerations, the gaucho ecosystem over the years has had little support from the public initiative. It is also noted the great relevance of Incubators and Technology Parks under the encouragement and coordination of the Gaúcha Network of Innovation Environments - REGINP and Community Universities in the interior associated with the Consortium of Community Universities in Gaúchas - COMUNG. In general, the innovation ecosystem of Rio Grande do Sul is one of the main Brazilian references, mainly due to its high degree of regionalization and scientific development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The academic production on entrepreneurship in the arts and culture is dispersed and the integrative conceptual-theoretical research are limited. The paper goal is to consolidate an integrated understanding of academic production on the relationship between entrepreneurship, culture and art and to propose renewing perspectives for future research. The results categorise singularities (subjective value, innovation and consumption, artistic, cultural, paradoxical and risk-oriented logic), themes, impacts (economic, social, cultural, artistic and political, direct, indirect, positive and negative), strengths and challenges. Organizational aesthetics is proposed and discussed as a theoretical-conceptual perspective for further research renewing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A quantitative methodology is presented to analyze the extent to which the degree of the various types of innovation influence the growth of the various types of business in the small enterprise and whether entrepreneurial capacity drives these types of innovation. Four types of business were considered (hightech companies, specialized services, companies with own brand products, and companies with conventional processes) and the four classic types of innovation. The methodology is exploratory and supports empirical study applied to a sample of companies. The results showed that the appropriation of some additional value, like own brand, potentiates the differences in the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and revenue growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2011 the National Health Agency (NHA) issued Resolution No. 259 which regulates the deadlines for scheduling appointments, examinations and surgeries, seeking to better fiscalization of the private sector healthcare in Brazil. Because of this regulation, the private healthcare market created the discount card, which does not fit the supervision of NHA. In this context, the SM Assistance Center, which today offers a discount card for outpatient care for the population of the C and D classes, need to set up to diversify the products offered, also referring to classes A and B. The objective of this teaching case is to provide reflection and discussions on topics such as entrepreneurship, marketing strategies, health sector context in Brazil and marketing products and services and the difficulties faced by managers to make strategic decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to comprehend the configuration of strategic entrepreneurship in family businesses from the supermarket sector located in the Minas Gerais state. Through a qualitative multi-case research, we interviewed founders, predecessors and successors from such firms in order to identify if and how they cope with strategic entrepreneurship practices within their firms. We analyzed different situations in which exploration and exploitation practices occurred. In addition, we observed ambidexterity between these practices of exploration and exploitation in some cases. We conclude that the family firms studied in this paper deploy and value strategic entrepreneurship practices, specifically during their processes of strategic renewal and of construction of competitive differentials. These practices, therefore, contribute to family business growth and to their configuration as entrepreneurial family businesses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this research was to identify determinants and difficulties encountered by women entrepreneurs, as well as the relationship with characteristics of the enterprise and of the women entrepreneurs. This research was conducted join a 102 women entrepreneurs. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. Descriptive and exploratory analyses were employed in the data analysis. The test of Spearman showed the correlation between determinant and growth difficulties and characteristics of the company and characteristics of the entrepreneurs. The analysis of Cluster identified groups of similar attributes related to the determinant and the growth difficulties. The main determinants were: time dedicated to the business, previous knowledge, creative capacity and innovative and new products and services. The growth difficulties were lack of personal qualification, lack of self trust and not to be innovative; planning lack, lack of organization, lack of information on the business and lack of growth strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although clearly the influence of the learning process in the generation and implementation of innovations, as well as the impact of innovation in entrepreneurial learning, empirical studies that relate the two topics are still emerging. This study aimed to analyze how entrepreneurs participating of the program local agents of innovation-ALI, developed by SEBRAE, learned to innovate, noting specifically the ways of experiential learning, formal, by network and vicarious learning. It was carried out through a multiple case study with two cases of success of the program Local Agents innovation-ALI. After the cases individual description it was carried out comparative analysis where the similarities and differences were highlighted in relation to each learning mode set as the most relevant. Based on the evidence it was found that the various modes of entrepreneurial learning were identified and these types of entrepreneurial learning contributed to their business innovations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance of entrepreneurial education to the development of a nation has been recognized in several countries. In recent decades, studies on entrepreneurship forward in terms of visibility and importance, but the subject of entrepreneurial education still lacks a more solid discussion that could help in its maturation, orientation and spread more effectively. Based on these findings, this theoretical development article aims to confront and analyse premises, objectives and methodologies of entrepreneurial education. Its differences in relation to the traditional education have generated the need for new pedagogical models, compatible with skills and attitudes of the individual entrepreneur. This research addresses the nature of entrepreneurial education, its methodological aspects, the role of the teacher, the reference point that the student takes in the process, and didactic and pedagogical practices developed for entrepreneurial learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay aims to describe the measures under the public universities regarding the everyday teaching practice having as reference the unifying factors of entrepreneurship, especially in the Administration Course. It is not today that the teaching-learning relationship in the gym has been guided by processes built under the atmosphere of entrepreneurship, analyzed in several aspects: creation, innovation, revolution, recontextualization, proactivity, commitment, dedication, motivation and risks. The concept of entrepreneurship education here has applied teleological character, as an intentional act, aimed at the use of active methodologies, innovative and transformative practices in teaching Administration. Therefore, the educational entrepreneurship becomes a methodological and ontological process that allows a variety of teaching practices to the teacher, without giving up the reflective pedagogy necessary for the formation of the future administrator. Under this sign, we have called for this work that you can perform didactic and pedagogical procedures guided by the composite elements designating the entrepreneurial action, even considering the implications and ambiguities in the university environment, where normally ideological and corporatist vectors tend to block the prerogatives teachers spontaneously decide to promote inclusive education, revisited and able to reposition Higher Education at higher levels. Authors such as Hoy and Miskel (2015), Hengemühle (2014) and Hartman (2015) support the purposes of the work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although statistics related tofemale entrepreneurship seem encouraging, endeavour is not an easy task, there are many challenges faced by woman entrepreneurs in managing their businesses. This study aimed at identifying the major challenges faced by woman entrepreneurs in planning and management their business and also see how these entrepreneurs make use of their networks to overcome these challenges. The research strategy adopted was multiple case studies and four travel agencies were selected that were created and managed by woman. Woman entrepreneurs that adopt planning and develop effective teams can delegate and trust employees. In financial management, the biggest challenge is the difficulty to access financial resources, such as funding and supplier credit. With regard to personnel management, the main difficulty consists in hiring skilled labor and conflicts arising from interpersonal relations. In general, social networks have proved crucial for the maintenance, development or companies' growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to comprehend the construction of innovative practices in family businesses. In order to do so, we conducted a case study in a family firm from the cachaça industry, located in the State of Minas Gerais. The results demonstrated the construction of innovative practices, involving a balance between disruptive innovations such as new products creation, new productive methods, and the exploration of new business opportunities, and incremental innovations in existing activities of the firm. This movement, in turn, generates possibilities for the strategic renewal of the family business, contributing to its longevity. We conclude that innovation, as an entrepreneurial action, allows the construction of innovative family businesses, a potential theoretical category to be explored in the field of family business research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to analyse how family businesses can create a unique context for entrepreneurship through their internal resources, mentioned by Habbershon and Williams (1999) as familiness. Some researchers have used the resource-based view as a theoretical framework in order to investigate entrepreneurial capabilities in family firms which are one of the requirements to create wealth across generation and so we did. Moreover, family business must have the requirements that encourage them to be constantly involved in entrepreneurial activities. A single case study was conducted and semi-structured interviews with family and non-family members of the family firm A were made. We can conclude, despite the fact that this family firm has positive resources that foster entrepreneurship, it could not be classified as Enterprising Family since the culture of this organization does not meet the requirements described by Habbershon (2006) for an entrepreneurial family firm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current study of character descriptive was operationalized through of survey data piauienses students that will play business Desafio SEBRAE. Thus, the purpose of this study was check if the game business Desafio SEBRAE presents significant influence for the student piauiense get a vision entrepreneurial. Whereas policy implementation of games and simulations in schools and institutions formators futures market professionals help meaningful in your entrepreneurial training, up might consider, among the findings of the research, the game virtual Desafio SEBRAE meets your paper is completing a lacuna not completed by the higher education system standard, whether motivating students of entrepreneurial culture through incursion practice that the simulation of market offer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this essay is to analyze how the Freirean Pedagogy contributes to the development of entrepreneurial professionals in the field of Management. The theoretical foundation is based on issues of Freirean Pedagogy, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education and teaching courses in Management. A comparison of entrepreneurship education with the pedagogy of Paulo Freire was taken in order to identify the converging aspects and possible contribution of this pedagogy for developing entrepreneurial professionals in Higher Education Institutions (HEI), more specifically the Administration course. Was identified that entrepreneurial education emphasizes behaviors and attitudes, involving the development of key capabilities in a larger context that the business making technical and scientific knowledge, seeking self-realization and appreciation of the being of the community, factors that converge directly with pedagogy proposed by Paulo Freire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Entrepreneurs are key to the development of a country, as they drive the economy through innovation. In Brazil, a question arises the need for educational institutions to encourage and "teach" entrepreneurship, since you can learn to be an entrepreneur. In this context it becomes relevant to the existence of instruments that can measure the potential entrepreneur. Thus, the work in question sought to adapt, validate and measure the entrepreneurial potential of students of a Higher Education Institution (HEI), as well as analyze the implications of this construct profile of the student, used a Likert scale format consists of 30 items . For data analysis, statistical techniques used for highlighting the exploratory factor analysis with the extraction method of principal components and varimax rotation (varimax with Kaiser normalization), reliability coefficient Cronbach Alpha and nonparametric tests -Test U of Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis (k samples). The statistical package used was the SPSS 17.0. Factor analysis extracted seven factors - high value of internal reliability - that explain 73.75% of the total variance: "Planning, Goals and Control" (3.66) "Intention to undertake" (3.89) "Persistence "(4.44)" Opportunity "(3.94)" Persuasion "(4.07)" Efficiency "(4.35) and" Info "(4.36). Regarding personal factors, no significant differences for any of the items: gender (p = 0.41); period (p = 0.41); professional activity (p = 0.23), stroke (p = 0.17) , age (p = 0.82), income (p = 0.64), father's occupation (p = 0.38) and mother's occupation (p = 0.32). It is suggested that in future research using structural equation model to confirm the scale and with a more diverse sample of courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to explain the relationship between intrapreneurial behavior, according to Moriano; Topa; Valero and Lévy (2009), and their entrepreneurial skills, as the approach of Lenzi (2008), of Senac's employees in the state of Santa Catarina. The theoretical approach presents the key themes that relate to the problem of the study, namely: entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial skills and intrapreneurial behavior. In analyzing these relationships, the nature of the approach applied in the article was mainly quantitative. The study can be categorized as descriptive by using technical procedures adopted and bibliographic, case study and survey. We used statistical techniques as Anova, Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling. The results demonstrates that the more common skills were commitment, persistence, and take calculated risks, and less frequent finding opportunities and initiatives and setting goals. With respect to conduct intrapreneurial, the analyzes showed a significant and relevant for all constructs except uncertainty in the available time and tasks. Finally, the entrepreneurial skills were strongly correlated with the constructs of intrapreneurship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The national economic development depends basically on the companies, which contribute to employment generation, income and technology. Studies indicate that a relationship exists between the number of entrepreneurs and economic development of the nation. Some theories hold that universities have an essential role in order to enhance and develop the entrepreneurial spirit among its students. Faced with this context, this study aimed to establish a comparative the entrepreneurial profile of entering students and graduates of the course of Accounting at the University of Caxias do Sul - RS. To achieve this aim, a survey was conducted with a sample of entrants and other of graduates. Was applied the questionnaire "I am an entrepreneur?" proposed by Demac (1990). As a result of the research, we found the occurrence of positive changes as compared these two groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to investigate the scientific production carried out until 2013 about innovative entrepreneurship stimulated by universities. This is a Bibliometric study, descriptive in nature, with a quantitative approach from a documentary research. The final sample was composed by 165 papers published in Ebsco periodicals, Scielo, annals of events of Anpad and Anprotec, and also theses and dissertations from Capes and Dominio Público. Regarding results, we find that: (i) the maximum number of publications by author on the subject of innovative entrepreneurship, was four; (ii) the better social collaboration networks capital presented eight connections, (iii) ) only four coaches followed the development of more than one paper; (iv) the year 2010 was the most productive in terms of publications on the topic, with a total of 24 papers; (v) Santa Catarina (through UFSC, FURB and CERTI Foundation) is responsible the majority of the papers, for a total of 12 publications; (vi) the degree of education with the highest number of publications is the Master Degree Programs, including 81 of the total papers found; (vii) Although in the year 2010 the Anpad - National Association of graduate studies and research in business administration - have been outstanding, in general Anprotec appears with more publications; (viii) despite the significant number of papers found, we realized that there is still theoretical gaps found in the papers published that can be solved through future researches. For example, no paper presented an evaluation of the results of the process of developing entrepreneurial skills, in order to evaluate their effectiveness, and this is an opportunity for future studies. The purpose of this survey infers that the representativeness of the academic context contributes to the advancement and to the expansion of knowledge in the area of entrepreneurship and innovation, in addition to giving greater visibility than has been produced about innovative entrepreneurship process over the years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]