Perception of entrepreneurship as alternative to facing the post-pandemic crisis

Abstract

This article aims to identify the perception of a group of incubated projects about the importance of entrepreneurship as alternative to face the economic crisis due to the new coronavirus pandemic. Entrepreneurship is a transversal subject to many areas of research and has been the object of study within themes such as economic, technological and innovation. The crisis in several sectors caused by the pandemic of the new coronavirus, raised other research possibilities. With a qualitative approach and through the case study method, using a structured questionnaire, it sought to investigate a group of companies/projects incubated in a technology-based business incubator, in the municipality of Mossoró in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. With the results, it was possible to verify that incubated have a positive perception about the importance of entrepreneurship in facing the crisis, thus pointing out that it is an alternative for the post-pandemic crisis period.