Carlos Henrique Machado Simão

Entrepreneurship is an important ally of economic growth. Understanding its characteristics is essential to optimize public policies thar aim to promote an entrepreneurial environment in a certain region. The goal of this study is finding the determinants of Entrepreurship index in Paraná for the year 2014. The first part is a review of entrepreneurial literature and its origins and then a review on its determinants. The SAR was used to calcutate the variables coefficcient. The results of the study are used to illustrate a dispersion of variabels in space. In the model,m coefficients of value added industry, services, and education were signifcant and positive. The GDP per capita's coefficient was significant and negative. The coefficients of value added agricultures, energy and employment were not significant. This study recommeds tha policies wich aim to creat an entrepreneurial environment should consider not only the city's economic struture, but its region's as well.