Moacir de Miranda Oliveira, Jr. – författare

This book examines the behavior of high-tech startups and important aspects of innovation ecosystems in Brazil. It discusses how the local business environment boosts startups and high-tech entrepreneurship, leading to the most successful implementation of technology parks and incubation movements in Latin America. In the first part, the chapters explore the experience of Brazilian high-tech startups with regard to innovation, funding, background of the entrepreneur and their efforts entering international markets. The second part is dedicated to innovation ecosystems and explains the role of business incubators, acceleration programs, and university entrepreneurship in the country.

This book explores the dynamic interplay between deep tech and digital entrepreneurship. Using Brazil as the setting, it shows how scientific discoveries and emerging digital opportunities translate into innovation to address societal grand challenges within Brazil’s unique context. The authors examine the challenges, opportunities, and innovative strategies of deep-tech and digital startups operating across transformative industries and ecosystems. The first part of the book focuses on the microfoundations, frameworks, and models that shape the success of deep tech ventures, including their capacity to adapt to uncertainty, build innovation readiness, and achieve commercial viability. The second part turns to digital startups and emphasizes their scalability, internationalization, and the essential role of entrepreneurial ecosystems. The book offers practical insights and actionable solutions for entrepreneurs, managers, and policymakers. The book provides a roadmap for entrepreneurs to navigate and harness the disruptive potential of deep tech and digital entrepreneurship in emerging markets and beyond by combining three major concepts: deep tech, digital, and disruptive enterprises.

Drawing on the best contributions from the 2015 and 2016 Academy of International Business Latin America Chapter (AIB-LAT) conferences, this collection provides analysis and research into the intertwined managerial environments from this vast and complex region. By systematically highlighting environmental, firm and individual-level influences on international business activities, the authors aim to divide the complex nature of this phenomenon into manageable pieces while simultaneously providing an understandable overview of important international business factors in the region. The book invites readers to think critically about how factors at any particular level can only provide one piece of the overall internationalization puzzle in the region.