Empreendedorismo no Brasil: reflexões sobre os Relatórios Executivos GEM dos anos 2010, 2011 e 2012

Abstract

Currently, entrepreneurship has had great importance in Brazil. The entrepreneur is a person with peculiar skills. Creativity, initiative and innovation are intrinsically linked to the entrepreneur. The search for new opportunities streamlines entrepreneurial activity, because the entrepreneur is always seeking news ideas to bring improvements to their business which allows the offer of novelty and more sophisticated products to customers. He is highly engaged and knows lead his team so that with the team reach the goals set. Entrepreneurship directly impacts the economy of the country; it is through the opening and small business management that lower income citizens are having the chance to access to products and services that were before inaccessible to their reality. In this study, initially a bibliographic collection about the topic. For the to the analysis of this research, the Executives GEM Reports of Brazil the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 were used. These publications bring synthesized aspects related to entrepreneurial activity in Brazil. The reports were removed from the website IBQP, executor entity of the research in Brazil. After the presentation and data analysis, where the principal variables intervening in entrepreneurial activity were exposed, one may conclude that entrepreneurship in Brazil has presented over the years changes in the indicators analyzed, however there is the need to consider some aspects which recorded low statistical values. Wherefore it is necessary that the entrepreneurship theme is considered important and treated with the attention it deserves.