Institutions that foster innovative entrepreneurship in brazil: Mapping and connections

This paper contemplates the deepening of a research conducted by the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (SEBRAE) during the 26th Anprotec Conference held in Fortaleza, state of Ceará, in the year of 2016. The research included a method to map out the needs of the Brazilian Innovation Ecosystem and covered ten institutions such as Accelerators, represented by ABRAII (Brazilian Association of Innovation and Investment Accelerators), Co-working spaces - represented by the Impact Hub. a Development Bank, FINEP (Studies and Projects Funding Agency), Anjos do Brasil; Venture Capital Investment Funds - represented by ABVCAP (Brazilian Association of Private Equity & Venture Capital), Incubators - represented by SUPERA Incubator, SEBRAE (Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service), Businesses - represented by Samsung Brazil and Technology Innovation Nuclei, part of Universities, represented by FORTEC (National Forum of Managers of Innovation and Technology Transfer). For this mapping, a matrix that considers the business development stage model was used to identify key actions and gaps in innovative entrepreneurship fostering in Brazil, also taking five critical business development variables into consideration - technology, talent, finance, location, and evolution. The results point to recurrences and lack of support and contribute with proposals for the Brazilian innovation ecosystem.