Empreendedorismo e desenvolvimento econômico no Brasil

Abstract

Through the importance of small business and entrepreneurship today and with the advent of globalization and the current economic scenario entrepreneurial activity has been shown to be one of the great forces that stimulate and encourage economic and social changes, the present study aims to analyze the situation of entrepreneurship in Brazil and what their contribution to local economic development. The study proposes to reflect on the theme showing the entrepreneurial situation of the country over the years. This study was started from the hypothesis that entrepreneurship is beneficial to society as a whole benefits as generating employment and income generation. For this work made use of secondary data drawn from research GEM - Global Entrepreneurship Monitor for the period from 2001 to 2011 and data from the IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística of Statistics report Entrepreneurship in 2008. The work has kind of exploratory research, literature, and qualitative descriptive through interpretation and description of events and meanings given in the research process. Through analysis of the data concluded that entrepreneurial activity is advancing, more people in the country are managing and opening new businesses each year, the number of initial entrepreneurs is growing, meaning that a larger number of people are involved in some entrepreneurial activity .