Educação empreendedora e geração de ocupação e renda: um estudo de caso do Empretec/Sebrae na Região Nordeste

Abstract

The concept of entrepreneurship involves the desire to create, innovate, carry out projects, identify opportunities and problems, apply resources and skills in order to generate positive impacts. The realization of the entrepreneurial activity contributes to the generation of income and occupation, encourages research, leverages the performance of a country and improves the quality of life of society. The teaching of entrepreneurial skills is relevant in this respect, since it allows knowledge to be passed on to the individuals who intend to undertake it. SEBRAE is a Brazilian institution that offers, among other services, a program on entrepreneurship, EMPRETEC. Thus, the theme of this dissertation includes the training offered to entrepreneurs in the Northeast Region and the effective contribution that the EMPRETEC course plays in the regional labor market, especially in terms of generating employment and improving the income of citizens. In order to do so, it aims to assess the main repercussions of the mentioned program, as an inductive element of the generation of occupation and income of the Northeast Region, in the year 2015. This objective converges into three specific objectives, namely: to verify the influence of entrepreneurship education on Occupations and the employability of the graduates; To identify the profile of EMPRETECos of the Northeast Region, regarding their characteristics of gender, age, schooling and declared income; And to evaluate the impact of EMPRETEC on the income aspects. Finally, the effectiveness of the EMPRETEC program was verified to improve the employability of the participants, to increase the amount of employment and the increase of income. The work was done with a case study method, based on descriptive research, through a bibliographical documentary analysis and spatial database to substantiate the aspects listed in the proposed theme. Finally, the effectiveness of the EMPRETEC program was verified to improve the employability of the participants, to increase the amount of employment and to raise the income.