Os Spin-offs estudantis, suas dificuldades e a atuação da Universidade : estudo de múltiplos casos no Estado de Sergipe

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Éder Danilo Bezerra dos
• Orientador(a): Borges Júnior, Cândido Vieira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Administração
• Palavras-chave em Português: Derivagem; Universidades e faculdades - Sergipe; Estudantes universitários - Sergipe; Empreendedorismo
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: College students; Entrepreneurship; Sergipe (Brazil); Universities and colleges
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/3000

The university spin-off is an expression of how the knowledge acquired in the university may have a practical application with benefits to the society. However, the literature on university spin-offs have given increased attention to academic spin-offs, created by researchers, or have brought generalist approaches that do not take into account the particular characteristics of the student spin-offs, created by graduate students, so that we still know little about this type of spin-off and on what role the university has in the creation of companies by these students. More recently, it has been shown that newly graduated students outnumber teachers and researchers in the number of businesses created, and are twice as likely to create new businesses than faculty members of universities. Thus, this study sought to examine, based on the stage model of Ndonzuau, Pirnay and Surlemont (2002), the creation process of technology based student spin-offs, and to understand how the universities support these companies in their difficult moments. We adopted a multiple case study as a research strategy, and as units of analysis we chose six companies created by students from two universities of the State of Sergipe that went through the incubation process. As sources of evidence, information was gathered through semi-structured interviews with students entrepreneurs and the university staff linked to their respective universities and incubators and to the technology park of the state, as well as secondary data obtained from the companies and the Internet. The main results highlight that student entrepreneurs identify business ideas through practical activities such as internships while still in the university as students, and have as key difficulties issues related to their youth, lack of experience and resources, and that the university as the parent organization was present in all stages of the creation process of these companies, although there is room for more interaction, especially when the nascent companies become independent.