Contributions of entrepreneurship education on the formation of enterprises in the context of the knowledge society
International Journal of Development Research
Contributions of entrepreneurship education on the formation of enterprises in the context of the knowledge society
Received 20th August, 2021; Received in revised form 27th September, 2021; Accepted 10th October, 2021; Published online 30th October, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Joelias Silva Pinto Junior et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper presents an analysis of the contribution of the Entrepreneurial Education course offered by the Ativa Business Incubator of the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso – IFMT in Brazil. This work aimed to understand how entrepreneurial education of Ativa Business Incubator has helped business owners to overcome their vulnerabilities that were found in the diagnosis of the process considering their business in the Knowledge Society. The businesses that were analysed attended the incubation process in 2021. We used a qualitative methodology to develop this case study. In the concern of the methodological procedures we first look for the vulnerabilities of the companies and then we face it with the Entrepreneurial Skills Course. Then, we make a confrontation between vulnerabilities we found in the SWOT matrix and the entrepreneurial training they receive by Ativa Business Incubator. The results show that Ativa offers a satisfactory course towards overcoming vulnerabilities of business.
