Book Chapter: Lenz, Anna-Katharina & Brito, Renata (2022). Microentrepreneurship in Brazil – Mind the gap. In: Leitao, J., Ratten, V., Braga, V. (2022). Brazilian Entrepreneurship – New Perspectives and Ideologies. Springer.

This is a preprint of the following book chapter: Lenz, A.-K., Brito, R., Microentrepreneurship in Brazil – Mind the gap, published in Brazilian Entrepreneurship – New Perspectives and Ideologies, edited by Leitão, J., Ratten, V., Braga, V., Springer, reproduced with permission of Springer. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-09392-0_2

In this chapter we call attention to the gaps that circumvent microentrepreneurship in Brazil and which motivates further study on the topic and the applied research at the Center of Microentrepreneurship (NUME) at PUC-Rio. Founded in 2019, NUME’s aspiration is to help understand growth potential and growth enablers for microentrepreneurs. Among the research topics we highlight: the process of resilience building, the outcome of human capital inequalities, the impact of gender, resource constrains and boundary conditions under which entrepreneurial activity emerges and can thrive under different conditions and regional contexts in Brazil (NUME, 2019). More