Training entrepreneurial leadership for the development of social and frugal innovations a study with incubators and solidarity economic enterprises in the Northern region of Brazil

Incubators and Solidarity Economic Enterprises are habitats for stimulating the formation of entrepreneurial social leaders and a fruitful condition for the development of social and frugal innovations, as they generate spaces and contexts that potentiate non-formal education. In this way, we seek an answer to the following research question: how can the formation of entrepreneurial leaders influence the development of social and frugal innovations in Incubators and Solidarity Economic Enterprises? Therefore, the research was carried out in stages, the first being of a qualitative nature, and the second, of a quantitative nature. In the first (qualitative) stage, the literature on non-formal education, learning spaces and contexts, entrepreneurial social motivations and leadership, and social and frugal innovations was analyzed. In the second (quantitative) stage, the incubation and post-incubation methodologies practiced by incubators in the northern region of Brazil were considered, specifically those with a distinctive innovative profile, in social and frugal terms. In this way, a survey was carried out with Solidarity Economic Enterprises (EES), linked to incubators in the north of Brazil, applying a structured questionnaire, in order to verify to what extent, the formation of entrepreneurial leaders influences the development of social innovations. and frugal. A sample of 163 managers of incubators, EES and technology-based companies in northern Brazil was obtained and the results pointed to a strong trend of the DIY predictor with the six dimensions of innovation: Social, Marketing, Organizational, Incremental, Disruptive and Institutional , pointing to the ability of EEP managers in the northern region of Brazil to combine their resources in an economic and sustainable way in the search for innovative and creative solutions. It is hoped that the research results can encourage public policymakers to improve the national science, technology and innovation system, as well as institute pro-solidarity economy reforms.