Empreendedorismo rural: intenções empreendedoras dos jovens acadêmicos da área de ciências agrárias

Abstract

This dissertation has as its main theme rural entrepreneurship. The general objective was to analyze the perspectives and identify the entrepreneurial intentions of the young academic students of the agrarian sciences courses, therefore correlated with the agribusiness. The sample comprised 659 academics from agronomy, forestry engineering, food engineering and technology and agribusiness courses from nine campuses belonging to two federal universities, two private universities and two federal institutes of education located in the northwestern region of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. The field research was conducted between April and June 2019 using a Likert scale form with 41 affirmative variables constructed from five dimensions: way of life; knowledge; rural entrepreneurship; motivations for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behaviors. From a factorial and cluster analysis four clusters with distinct characteristics were identified: the agro-entrepreneurs; potential agro-entrepreneurs; possible agro-entrepreneurs and non-agro-entrepreneurs. The results showed a high degree of enchantment with the rural way of life and great propensity for rural entrepreneurship because of the good entrepreneurial profile of agribusiness youth.