A importância do fomento às startups exercido pelas instituições privadas

Abstract

This article aims to characterize Brazilian startups and their aspects and analyze private institutions that promote startups, in order to understand how these entities help in the development of these companies, in addition to observing the results and current challenges in relation to private investments. To this end, the contributions of Shumpeter's Innovation Theory and neo-Shumpterians will be used as a theoretical basis, as innovation is the basis and main element of these technology companies. Furthermore, this article relies on field research carried out with 10 Brazilian startups, to understand in practice how these institutions help both in capital injection and qualitative investment, known as Smart Money. According to the results obtained in the field research, it can be seen that development institutions, especially in the first phases of startups, can play an important role in helping startups in different areas, with the aim of consolidating and scaling them.