ID: 55282
Authors:
Joana Marins de Andrade Coutinho, Andréa Aparecida da Costa Mineiro, Luiz Eugênio Veneziani Pasin, Cleber Castro de Carvalho.
Source:
Revista Economia & Gestão, v. 19, n. 53, p. 55-72, May-August, 2019. 18 page(s).
Keyword:
Business Incubator , Environments of Innovation , Post incubation
Document type: Article (Portuguese)
Show Abstract
In Brazil, many actions intend to leverage innovation and technological development of companies. Among them are business incubators, which support the birth and development of innovative projects. However, there is evidence that in the first few years after leaving the incubator, the risk of business failure is high. In this way, post-incubation programs emerge in order to provide support and are important instruments to help newly graduated companies in their process of adaptation to the market. This article aims to identify the main services in a post-incubation program based on the perception of the graduated companies and managers of incubators in Minas Gerais state. For this, the study was characterized by a survey with 60 EBTs graduated until 2017, by the business incubators of Minas Gerais. The study was of mixed nature, and used two sources of data collection (questionnaires with entrepreneurs and interviews with incubators managers). Regarding the analyzes, factorial analysis was used for the questionnaire, and content analysis by categories for the interviews. The factorial analysis for the post-incubation services presented four factors that explain 73.65% of the variance: internationalization opportunities, technical assistance, commercial development and management improvement opportunities. Interviews with incubator managers confirm the third and fourth factor and partly the second factor. As a main contribution of the study it was possible to establish a synthesis of the main useful services in a post-incubation program that can be used by managers of incubators or technology parks.
