Arranjo produtivo local: foco no empreendedorismo coletivo e fomentação das políticas públicas

Abstract

The present work intends to make an analysis to provide more clarity on the Local Productive Arrangement (APL) and to point out its importance, characteristics, origins, advantages and the factors that led to its development. This new model of production – APL – is a kind of aggregation of micro and small companies, with primary conditions of interaction among its agents. Thus, the main objective of this work is to present the importance of collective entrepreneurship and public policies in the development of the local productive arrangement, factors that are claimed by several authors as fundamental for the development of companies in agglomerations. This analysis also seeks to confirm the truth of this statement. Among the questions asked in this research are: What events have arisen to emphasize the new flexible production mode? How can the benefits of collective entrepreneurship solve various problems and leverage several factors in the arrangement? How can public policies be fundamental to the survival of agglomerations? Based on these assumptions, the researches and works of several authors were analyzed. Among them, books, articles, monographs, magazines, thus providing the possibility of a comparison between authors. During the research, it was identified that several authors agree that collective entrepreneurship, together with public policies, is an efficient way of truly reaching the development of the arrangement and, consequently, of the territory in which it is inserted.