Michel Foucault: analysis of power relations in entrepreneurial and innovative initiatives in Brazil

Abstract

This research aimed at understanding the relationships of power over the implementation and the dissemination of entrepreneurial and innovative initiatives in the Public Service Innovation Examination in Brazil. It is about a basic qualitative research, sustained by the documental analysis investigation model and the episteme reference board by Michel Foucault, in his work Microphysics of Power. The data were processed through electronic spread sheets, and the research corpus was the repository of the Brazilian National School of Public Administration, from 2006-2015. We used the structural, revised and expanded model by Mônica Cappelle, Marlene Melo and Mozar Brito. The results showed that power is spread out and moves around the procedures entrails, the indicators, the decisions, the partnerships, the documents and the technologies. The findings also point that the State is at the market’s service, when it fosters industrial complexes, productive chains and economy of scale with public funding.

Keywords

• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation
• Public Service
• Power relations