Technology-based entrepreneurship

• Grant number: 16/22551-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: February 01, 2017
• End date: July 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences
• Principal Investigator: Sergio Robles Reis de Queiroz
• Grantee: Andre Cherubini Alves
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências (IG). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/50524-6 - Innovation systems, strategies and policies, AP.SPEC

Abstract

The project consists in a long-term research program (5-years) to study the interactions between entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth in Brazil. The program will focus primarily on knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship as a necessary mechanism and an agent of change mediating between the creation of knowledge and technical advancement and its transformation into economic activity. Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship is perceived herein as a core interface between two interdependent systems: the knowledge generation and knowledge diffusion system, on the one hand, and the productive system, on the other. Both systems - and therefore also entrepreneurship - shape and are shaped by the broader social context - including customs, culture, and institutions. (AU)