Innovation Ecosystem in Sergipe State: The Difficulties Faced by Startups

Matheus Pereira Mattos Felizola, Iracema Machado de Aragão Gomes () and Maria Beatriz Filgueiras Prata de Almeida ()
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Matheus Pereira Mattos Felizola: Social Communication Department, Federal University of Sergipe, Av. Marechal Rondon, São Cristóvão, Sergipe 49100-000, Brazil
Iracema Machado de Aragão Gomes: Administration Department, Federal University of Sergipe, Av. Marechal Rondon, São Cristóvão, Sergipe 49100-000, Brazil
Maria Beatriz Filgueiras Prata de Almeida: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Laboratory (LEI), Federal University of Sergipe, Av. Marechal Rondon, São Cristóvão, Sergipe 49100-000, Brazil

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), 2019, vol. 16, issue 05, 1-17

Abstract: The founders of startups in Sergipe state, Brazil, began to unite in 2012, with a purpose of strengthening the innovation ecosystem in the state. The aim of this paper was to deepen the knowledge about the entrepreneurs’ movement entitled “Caju Valley”, in order to propose measures to strengthen the group. From the analysis realized, it was possible to observe that the Caju Valley group, although being important to the startups’ ecosystem, still suffers due to the lack of balance between the various stakeholders, and also faces the lack of maturity of the entrepreneurs, timid or suspicious investors, accelerators without effective action and incubators with low effectivity.

Keywords: Startups; entrepreneurship; innovation; ecosystem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1142/S0219877019500354

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