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• The Setting Up of Environmental Conditions for the Creation of Software Enterprises in Brazil: the GENESIS Project and its Results

This article describes a project, called GENESIS, developed to co-ordinate the creation and operation of enterprise generation centres around Brazil. The main goals of this project are: (1) to create the necessary environmental conditions for young entrepreneurs to establish their own software companies; (2) to stimulate the introduction of entrepreneurship teaching in the official curriculum of Computer Science and related areas in the Brazilian universities; (3) to study, implement and deploy models of enterprise generation, and to assess their effectiveness in creating world class enterprises. This article presents the GENESIS model of enterprise creation and the quantitative and qualitative results of the project since its beginning.