Entrepreneurship policy in Brazil: its focus and gaps

Borges, Cândido; Bezerra, Éder Danilo; Silva, Glessia; Andreassi, Tales; Ferreira, Vicente da Rocha Soares

doi:10.1504/ijesb.2018.10013257

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“…An innovation policy may be conceptualized as a series of governmental activities translated into plans, programs, projects or actions aimed at fostering innovation (Audretsch & Link, 2012;Bajmócy & Gébert, 2014;Landström et al, 2012;Landström et al, 2015;Öner & Kunday, 2016;Patanakul & Pinto, 2014). Given that such policies directly affect existing businesses and have the potential of contributing to the creation of new ones, they must be integrated with the entrepreneurship policies (Bhupatiraju et al, 2012;Fagerberg, Fosaas, & Sapprasert, 2012;Landström et al, 2015), which in turn are aimed at fostering the creation of new businesses and/or strengthening the existing ones (Borges, Bezerra, Silva, Andreassi, & Ferreira, 2018;Lundström & Stevenson, 2005;Minniti, 2008;Mirzanti et al, 2015;Öner & Kunday, 2016;Qian & Haynes, 2014). Despite the similarities, innovation and entrepreneurship policies are usually dissociated from one another in such a way that most of the current innovation policies have goals that do not reflect the context they were meant for (Audretsch & Link, 2012;Bajmócy & Gébert, 2014).…”

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“…We created a classification form in order to identify general aspects, characteristics of the target audience, and characteristics of the actions (Lundström & Stevenson, 2005). The form was used in a previous study (Borges et al, 2018) and contains the following: (a) control number, (b) name of the policy, (c) type of policy, (d) year of creation, (e) objective, (f) responsible body, (g) target audience, (h) type of support offered, (i) agents involved, (j) local context, (k) intended results, (l) follow-up mechanisms, (m) policy impacts, (n) evaluation metrics, and (o) link to website.…”

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Public Policies on Innovation and Small Businesses in a Swinging Economy

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2019

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the adequacy of public policies that support innovation in small businesses in a swinging economy, particularly in Brazil. 1 In order to make our case for more adequate public policies on innovation, we develop five propositions based on the assumption that innovation policies focused on fostering socioeconomic development should meet. We adopted a documentary research design, as we examined the policies produced by governmental bodies and agencies at the three governmental levels in Brazil-federation, states, and cities. Also, qualitative content analysis was performed in order to organize, codify and interpret the messages delivered by current innovation policies in the country. We found that most public policies on innovation and small businesses are shortsighted and generalist, borrowing metrics and evaluation criteria from the big enterprise context in an one-size-fits-all manner that, ultimately, cannot be applied to most small businesses and local contexts. As a contribution to theory, our five propositions could be used as starting points for future policy and administration research. On a practical level, we propose recommendations to policy-makers and offer insights on how an adequate policy affects a country's competitiveness and socioeconomic development.

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