Business Incubators as Vectors to the Promotion of Clean Technologies in Small Firms: Limits and Possibilities
Keywords:
Business incubators. Micro and small firms. Clean technologies. Environmental management. Clean technology incubators.Abstract
The paper reports the results of a study that sought to reflect, on the basis of two cases, about opportunities and challenges, possibilities and limits, for the insertion of small business ventures – new ventures and micro and small enterprises – in the productive field which became to be known, especially since the Rio conference 92, as green economy. The search for clean technologies has become a great challenge and at the same time, a great business opportunity. The possibilities were opened up for large companies, able to mobilize the resources necessary for this transition. The limits were evident for small businesses. Evidences has been pointing out to the necessity of developing instruments, particularly on public policies, able to offer support, to small businesses so that they can overcome their limits. The focus of the study was precisely on this point: the experience of two incubators, one American and other Brazilian, specialized in supporting small businesses oriented to the markets of clean technologies. Qualitative in the method and with exploratory purposes, the research was designed as a multiple case study (based on two cases), having the documentary research as strategy for data collection. Referenced in the literature of environmental management (with emphasis on clean technologies small businesses) and business incubators (with greater emphasis on typology of incubators), the research revealed a large gap between the realities of the two countries, either in numbers of incubators within the field of clean technologies, or in the mobilization of institutional actors who act in support of these incubators. Based on the two case studies it was identified a single strategic affinity between the two incubators and a set of dichotomous elements, both strategically and in terms of management. In face of these findings were pointed, as conclusions of the paper, some suggestions for the Brazilian movement of incubators in the will to incorporate environmental elements into their strategies and their management systems.
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