Development of entrepreneurship in Brazil based on indicators of the global entrepreneurship monitor (GEM)

Entrepreneurship is very important in a society due to its influence with the growth and development of a country. The importance of studying and knowing the entrepreneurial activity and the entrepreneur's profile contributes positively to identify estimates of this activity and to clarify the...

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Autores: Josende da Silva, Ana Carolina Cozza, Furtado, Juliana Haetinger, Zanini, Roselaine Ruviaro
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Brasil
Institución:Associação Brasileira de Engenharia de Produção (ABEPRO)
Repositorio:Revista Produção Online
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.producaoonline.org.br:article/1940
Acceso en línea:https://www.producaoonline.org.br/rpo/article/view/1940
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Entrepreneurship. Economic growth. Evolution. GEM.
Empreendedorismo. Crescimento econômico. Evolução
GEM.
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Sumario:Entrepreneurship is very important in a society due to its influence with the growth and development of a country. The importance of studying and knowing the entrepreneurial activity and the entrepreneur's profile contributes positively to identify estimates of this activity and to clarify the future of this process. In this sense, this article presents the evolution of entrepreneurship in Brazil over the past 13 years, using for the study secondary data obtained from the GEM and IBGE researches, in which the search was conducted in documentary basis from 2001 to 2013. The results present a descriptive analysis of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor entrepreneurship indicators (GEM) concerning to the new entrepreneur rate and the rate of nascent entrepreneurs, growth of the Brazilian GDP related to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship rate according to the entrepreneur stages (initial and established), initial entrepreneurs according to their motivation (by chance and necessity), by gender entrepreneurs, age, level of education. It was also carried out statistical analysis where the trend of the variables over time was verified by simple linear regression at the significance level of 5%. The study concludes that Brazil tends to present significant growth towards entrepreneurship, an advancement of the female contribution to the economy, increase of entrepreneurs because of more opportunities and stability in the existing businesses.