Mentoring Entrepreneurial Networks: mapping conceptions of participants in technological-based business incubators in Brazil
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2007
- handle: 10670/1.g2m9w5
- 1579-0185
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Política entrepreneurial cognition entrepreneurial career network mentoring cognitive mapsSujets proches
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Helder Pontes Regis et al., « Mentoring Entrepreneurial Networks: mapping conceptions of participants in technological-based business incubators in Brazil », Redes. Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales, ID : 10670/1.g2m9w5
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"The recent entrepreneurship research agenda includes the analysis of cognitivestructures of successful entrepreneurs, revealing an important tool for theexamination of an entrepreneurial career. Using techniques of cognitive maps, thisstudy explores the concepts of a successful career and the network itself, as awhole, for career development. Fifty-three entrepreneurs were studied, in seventechnological incubators in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Specifically, thisstudy aimed to map the shared meanings of the incubated entrepreneurs regardinginformal support networks. Such networks support the entrepreneurial career andthe present study explores the characteristics and the conceptual model thatunderlies the networks. The data collection was achieved through interviewsthrough a free evocation technique. The shared meanings indicate the existence ofinherent thought categories that support network context in the incubatorenvironment, mainly the mentoring networks. The results endorse theinterpretation of an informal mentoring model emerging from the dominantevocations concerning a successful career and of the network itself as promoter ofcareer development."