Uma leitura sobre políticas públicas voltadas ao empreendedorismo em municípios da Associação dos Municípios do Setentrião Paranaense - AMUSEP

Abstract

As a field of study, entrepreneurship has diversified its approach worldwide and recently authors have analyzed the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM Report) has been researching on the entrepreneur environment in several countries and has indicated initiatives that promoted entrepreneurship therein. The policies and programs on entrepreneurship in three municipalities with the highest and lowest HDI-M variation per group within the Municipal Association of the Northem Region of the State of Paraná (AMUSEP) in 1991 and 2000 have been identified and analyzed. Analysis is justified by the need to understand the cnvironmental conditions of competitiveness of small and medium-sized Brazilian firms with regard to jobs, salaries and income distribution. Current investigation is an exploratory and interpreta tive research through data collection and a half-structured interview. Content analysis was employed for data analysis. Research discovered a relationship between DHI-M and public policies favoring entrepreneurship. Regional institutions, such as universities, commercial associations and industrial and commercial secretariats, are highlighted as entrepreneurship-promoting agents. However, lack of continuity of programs and projects and, in certain cases, the dependence of municipal managements on regional entrepreneurship-promoting institutions, have been pinpointed. Lack of utilization of tools and variables for the following-up of programs in the municipalities has been reported. Further concern lies on the fact that public policies and programs endeavor to import entrepreneurs from other towns and cities rather than give incentives to new entrepreneurs that have their domicile in the same municipalities.