ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN CONDITIONS: AN ANALYSIS FOR BRAZILIAN MUNICIPALITIES IN 2010
Urban development. Entrepreneurship. Multivariate Analysis. QCA
The discussion around entrepreneurship, its causes and consequences for the growth of economies has expanded in recent years. Economic geographers and urban economists began to condition entrepreneurial activities to urban growth and agglomerations. The applied literature, in most cases, analyzes the causes of entrepreneurship from an economic perspective without taking into account urban aspects and characteristics. Thus, this dissertation aims to analyze and compare the multiple relationships of entrepreneurship and indicators of urban conditions in order to highlight the main patterns and diversities of Brazilian municipalities for the year 2010. The database is configured in data from the System IBGE for Automatic Recovery (SIDRA) and the Atlas of Human Development in Brazil (UNDP, 2013), for the year 2010. The variables are related to the dimensions of urban infrastructure, housing dimensions and socioeconomic dimensions of the municipalities that, through the analysis factorial (AF), will be condensed in urban conditions of Brazilian cities. In addition to the factor analysis technique, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) techniques and the multilevel regression
model are applied. Together, these techniques will allow to verify the multiple relations between the entrepreneurship rates and the urban conditions of the municipalities, as well as to identify patterns of association between the Brazilian municipalities regarding their development. The FA results showed 4 factors of urban conditions, namely: socioeconomic condition, condition of household infrastructure, condition of urbanization and housing condition. Through the QCA, it appears that socioeconomic conditions and home infrastructure are the most sufficient to lead to high entrepreneurship and, finally, it was found, by the results
of the multilevel regression with interaction between states, metropolitan region and municipalities, that the influence of characteristics at the state level on entrepreneurship rates is reduced with the inclusion of variables of urban conditions and that, except for the condition of urbanization, urban conditions influence the rates of entrepreneurship in the municipalities. The conclusive results suggest that municipalities with better economic and infrastructure conditions have higher rates of urban entrepreneurship.