O empreendedorismo tecnológico como construção social: a experiência de incubação de empresas de tecnologias da informação do Parque Tecnológico da Paraíba.

Abstract

This work aims to understand, from a sociological perspective, the process of Information Technologies Firms incubation, in the context of the partnership between the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) and the Technological Park Foundation of Paraíba (PaqTcPB), established to form the Academic-Local Productive Arrangement (AAPL), located in Campina Grande, Paraíba. In this network environment interaction, supported by other partners institutions in the public and private sectors, are introduced rationalities that keep important no exclusive matches with the main actors of the process, which make up the meanings of social actions developed there. The perspective adopted is oriented toward the apprehension of technological entrepreneurship and the process of business incubation as a social construction, in which will be identified and analyzed the institutional and individual actors involved in the generation of knowledge and development of innovative projects; their relations of cooperation and competition; their roles, positions and places; their ways of working and operational procedures; conditions and contradictions within agencies and among agencies related to processes and ends of the Incubation of those businesses; and their potential and limitations in relation to the incubation process; their developments in the constitution of a local cluster of technology and technological development project resulting from this composition. The theoretical-methodological approach is supported by the network analysis proposed by Mark Granovetter, author who retakes the Weberian thought from the perspective of the New Economic Sociology, as well as by the instruments of public policy analysis, which complement the vision of technological development. The methodology we adopted seeks to address both objective and subjective dimensions of social dynamics involved, using qualitative methods as direct observation procedures, document analysis and semi-structured interviews as data collection techniques.