O comportamento empreendedor de diretores da UFSM e sua percepção quanto à universidade empreendedora

Abstract

Since its inception, in the eleventh century, the university was born with the primary mission of teaching, adding over time, research and extension. Are currently being investigated by several researchers incorporating the economic and social development as a new mission in IFES, showing that institutional perspective, in which the elements of the old model are retained and processed, generating actions and entrepreneurial attitudes in the university, to promote and coordinate interaction "entrepreneurial university", establishing strategies for joint teaching, research and extension with society. Thus, this study aimed to analyze the entrepreneurial behavior of teaching units of directors of UFSM and its influence on perception of the entrepreneurial university. It was adopted as the research method qualitative approach, exploratory, based on empirical research. The units of analysis were the directors of teaching units UFSM. Data were analyzed using content analysis technique, categorical, enunciation and lexicométrica, and the analysis of categories defined a priori and not a priori (Bardin, 2011). The a priori categories - opportunities and initiative, planning and take calculated risks (McClelland, 1972); and economic and social development, junior company and interaction with the community (Guaranys, 2010) were defined based on the theoretical framework and the aim of this study; and the category does not a priori - structure and management of people - emerged from the speech of respondents. In addition, it was used as a secondary source to Self Assessment Research Institutional 2014 / UFSM, in order to contribute as "adjunct" to analyze the results of illustrative discussion of the results in this study. The entrepreneurial characteristic opportunities and initiative was the one that stood out as the main feature of the respondents; followed by the feature planning and take calculated risks, which were matched. As for the category structure and personnel management, it was emphasized by the majority of respondents, of which it is positioned in a similar way as the observations and findings on matters involving these two aspects. As the interviewees' perceptions about entrepreneurial university, the aspect that proved better understood was the interaction with the community, followed by the junior company of understanding and finally, economic and social development, as being the least understood by respondents. In order to meet the objective of the study - to examine the entrepreneurial behavior of teaching units of directors of UFSM and its influence on the perception of the entrepreneurial university - it was concluded that the entrepreneurial behavior of these directly influence their perception of the entrepreneurial university.