A universidade empreendedora na promoção de um ecossistema de empreendedorismo incipiente no IFRJ - Campus Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin sob a perspectiva da "hélice tríplice".

Abstract

Nowadays knowledge-based Society demands new challenges for Educational Institutions whereas they emerge as change agents, making the Academy rise as a leading figure for economic, social and technological development. The present study has the final objective to comprehend the rise of the technological entrepreneurial environment at a rural location and its relationship with academic entrepreneurship fomenting activities promoted by the Federal Institute for Education, Science and Technology, Campus Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin. The research is defined as an exploratory, qualitative case study with multiple data collect methods analyzed through the content analysis method. It was observed in the Campus a strategic move from the traditional academic model towards the entrepreneurial university model, proposed by the Triple Helix Model. Results revealed that the academic entrepreneurship fomenting actions performed by the Campus were capable of promoting an entrepreneurial ethos that led to the creation of developers’ groups and startups formed by students, both dedicated do the development of technological products and digital games inside the academic environment. These players begin external relationships, in an environment with aspects of a still incipient entrepreneurial ecosystem where the Campus is located. As results, the Campus academic entrepreneurship fomenting actions are presented and its relationship with the rise of a technological entrepreneurial environment centered on the Campus. The study also enabled the description of the technological entrepreneurial ecosystem the emerges in contrast with the rural area where the Campus is located presenting its strengths and its improvement needs.