“…The formalization of the research on EI began with the studies of Shapero (1984) Shapero and Sokol (1982), and Ajzen (1985Ajzen ( , 1991. Subsequently, with the work of Autio, Kenney, Mustar, Siegel, and Wright (2014), Fayolle and Gailly (2014), Saeed, Yousafzai, Yani-De-Soriano, and Muffatto (2015), Khuong and An (2016), Souza and Silveira (2016), Ferreira, Loiola, and Gondim (2017), Paiva, Lima, Rebouças, Ferreira, and Fontenele (2018), Braum and Nassif (2018), and Martins, Santos, and Silveira (2019). Krueger and Carsud (1993) presuppose that the intention to start a new business has as antecedents the desire in this achievement, the viability and the propensity to act on opportunities.…”