Tecnologias sociais e empreendedorismo: um estudo dos projetos desenvolvidos pelo Instituto de Pesquisa em Tecnologia e Inovação – IPTI, em Santa Luzia do Itanhy, SE

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the relationship between social technologies (TS) developed by the Institute for Research in Technology and Innovation (IPTI) and entrepreneurial training, with a main focus on social entrepreneurship, investigating whether they foster and/or act in the development of skills / enterprising characteristics in the young people who participate. Having as secondary objectives, from the participants' reports, to know how the experience with the STs was, what type of effect they generated and to point out their possible deficiencies. To achieve the proposed objectives, the Entrepreneurial Behavior Scale developed by Santos (2008) was used to measure the entrepreneurial intention and potential of young graduates of the programs and, in a complementary way, the focus group (FG) was used to have a deeper understanding of the impacts of these technologies on participants. In order to compare the results of the scale, a control group from the neighboring city of Indiaroba was also used. The scale was applied to everyone who participated in the three projects analyzed – Creativity, Logic, Opportunity and Growth (CLOC), Naturalist Art and PLOC – and to the participants in the control group. After applying the scale, groups of students who had already completed the training cycle to join the FG were selected only for project participants. For the analysis of the data obtained in the scale, graphical analysis and indicators, Scarpi and Wilder, are used, and the comparison between the treated and control groups is made. The research identifies that, in relation to the scale, the participants of the treated group presented good results. However, even without any entrepreneurial intervention, participants in the control group exhibited as good results as those in the treated group. The FG points out that the treated group considers the projects as mentality transformers, making them see new directions and helping them to change the mentality established in the place where they live. However, from the entrepreneurial perspective, especially the social one, it cannot be said that the projects promote it in the way it proposes. In general, the entrepreneurial perspective presented to the students is far from what was promised and is deficient when it is not an experience focused on the particularities of each project.