O Apelo Socioeconômico e a Ação Empreendedora no Processo de Estruturação de Configurações Produtivas Vinculadas à Bioenergia no Brasil

SOCIOECONOMIC APPEAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION IN THE PROCESS OF STRUCTURING PRODUCTIVE CONFIGURATIONS LINKED TO BIOENERGY IN BRAZIL

Abstract

The increase in population has made a world perceive a strong increase in the demand for energy. Most of the current energy demand is met by burning fossil fuels. However, the use of traditional fuels is associated with an environmental increase in the intensity of harmful gases, such as carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases and nitrogen oxide. The objective of this essay is to problematize what became known as socioeconomic appeal associated with entrepreneurial action, which is aimed at structuring certain productive configurations oriented to the exploration of bioenergy in Brazil. This objective is justified insofar as it questions the way in which the processes that tend to stimulate the use of alternative sources and forms of bioenergetic production occur. In order to support this justification, this essay addresses the socioeconomic appeal of bioenergetic production in Brazil; the process of change in the institutional perspective; and, the entrepreneur as an agent of institutional changes and social innovations. The result of this work provides subsidies about the reflection that must go through the search for consensual and negotiated solutions to the problems that have been raised regarding the exploration of bioenergy in Brazil. The essay presents itself as a vehicle that indicates how social transformations can be conducted with the proposal of a reflection on the solutions that have been developed to solve, in a sustainable way, the problems related to the exploration of bioenergy in Brazil.