Entrepreneurship Education: A Tool for Development of Technological Innovation

The theoretical and practical capacitation on entrepreneurship is a technical and scientific process of technical and scientific development that aims at developing the abilities and competences to businessmen, future entrepreneurs or potential businessmen, to promote social and economic development, generation of jobs and income, professional efficiency and business strategies. This technological development can be pointed as a propeller of the dynamic factors of development in Brazil. While Brazil moves towards development, the universities have a role of promoting agents, providing theoretical-practical support for the entrepreneurship and innovation. This work has as an aim to identify, explain and evaluate how the subject Entrepreneurship has an impact on the students of Business Administration, Engineering and Computer Science (IT) developing technological innovations generated in incubated companies that have a technological basis and graduated (companies that have finished their process in the incubators). The research has been done with incubated entrepreneurs and graduates that had followed the subject of entrepreneurship and others that had not done it. It is an exploratory practice study on a sample of 30 businesspeople, selected among incubated companies of technological basis, with less than 2 years of foundation, and graduated with less than 4 years. The result has allowed us to observe a significant percentual increase in the group that has taken the discipline. This fact shows that, for the group that has taken the subject of entrepreneurship, there is a direct relationship with the development of the technological innovation. A conclusion can be reached that the obtained result shows the importance of the subject of entrepreneurship for the democratization of the entrepreneur culture, expansion of the professional teaching and the technological development. The interest lies in relating the Public Policy of Technological Development, later than the promulgation of the Law of Technological Innovation (http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2004-2006/2004/lei/l10.973.htm) with the obtained results and to debate the strategies and practices of work in both interviewed groups, so that we can confirm that the creation of technology is really significant. The choice of the case was the result of the innovative profile of the specific legislation for the promotion of technological innovation, opening space to a new guideline in public policies.