For more green startups: identifying the main attributes of entrepreneurship ecosystems in Germany to foster the development of Greentechs

• Grant number: 22/15377-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 25, 2023
• End date: July 24, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Production Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Mateus Cecílio Gerolamo
• Grantee: Arthur Yassine Oliveira
• Supervisor: Vânia Gomes Zuin Zeidler
• Host Institution: Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
• Associated to the scholarship: 22/08218-4 - For more green startups: identifying key attributes of entrepreneurship ecosystems to foster greentech development, BP.IC

Abstract

Startups responsible for optimizing the use of natural resources to provide processes, services, and products capable of generating not only economic value, but also environmental and social value, are called Greentechs (GTs). Brazil has immense potential for the development of GTs, and to help these startups to develop, this project intends to analyze the relevant factors for the development of GTs in Entrepreneurship Ecosystems (EEs), by obtaining a list validated by specialists in GTs, among practitioners and academics, of the analyzed EEs. In the Scholarship in the Country the EE of Vale do Piracicaba, in São Paulo, will be analyzed, and the present BEPE project intends to contribute to scientific initiation through the analysis of the EE of Lower Saxony, in Germany. The results will be obtained using the Fuzzy-Delphi method, a group decision mechanism composed of specialists with deep knowledge in a researched subject, towards their consensus. It is known that Germany is one of the most developed countries in the world in terms of greentechs, sustainable entrepreneurship, green technologies and Industry 4.0. Therefore, it is expected that the comparison of the results obtained in Brazil with those of a reference country in the area will help the decision-making of the interested parties, through the understanding of how cultural, social and material differences in EEs influence the development of GTs. In addition, it is expected that the prioritized list of attributes will serve as a subsidy for future studies that aim to develop recommendations to make Brazilian EEs more conducive to the development of GTs, and, therefore, greener and more sustainable. (AU)