Sebrae (, "Support Service for Micro and Small Enterprises"), is a Brazilian autonomous social institution part of the whose aim is to foster the development of

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and

small enterprises Small businesses are types of corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships which have a small number of employees and/or less annual revenue than a regular-sized business or corporation. Businesses are defined as "small" in terms of being ...

, stimulating

entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entrepreneu ...

in the country . Founded in 1972 with the name of Cebrae (Centro Brasileiro de Apoio à Pequena e Média Empresa), it was an entity associated with the

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. In October 1990, it was renamed Sebrae (Serviço Brasileiro de apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas), detaching itself from public administration and becoming an autonomous, non-profit social service. Sebrae's chairman is, as of 2023,

Décio Lima Décio Nery de Lima (born 1 October 1960) is a Brazilian professor, lawyer, and politician. He is currently the president of Sebrae. Prior to assuming the presidency, he was a federal deputy from the state of Santa Catarina, as well as the mayor ...

. The president of its National Deliberative Council is José Zeferino Pedrozo.

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