Abstract

RODRIGUES, Ariele Silva Moreira et al. Entrepreneurship in academic spaces: assessment of entrepreneurial alert and causation and effectuation approaches at a brazilian university. Invest. Práticas [online]. 2020, vol.10, n.2, pp.117-141. ISSN 2182-1372.  https://doi.org/10.25757/invep.v10i2.219.

The objective of this study was to identify and analyze how the managers of Junior Companies (EJs), from a Brazilian federal university, recognize the opportunities and how they exploit them. The research is exploratory and tests the theoretical assumptions of the Entrepreneurial Alert and the Causation and Effectuation Approaches, with 30 student managers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). It concludes that the training fostered by educational experiences in junior companies stimulates entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviors, as it develops in young people the perception of themselves and the world, and also contributes to the formation of holistic and contextual beings who are able to deal with analytical processes and rational. The article argues that entrepreneurship in academic spaces provides a potential effect that needs to be stimulated and studied, as it stimulates cognitive and psychological capacities essential to professional training. This study is understood as original since there is little research in the scope of academic entrepreneurship, dealing with this gap in the literature within the study. The information collected in this study about the EJs, contribute to the improvement of the support and relationship system of the actors involved with the environment they are inserted in.

Keywords : Entrepreneurship; Junior company; Entrepreneurial Behavior; Entrepreneur Alert; Causation and Effectuation.

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