Policy makers often see entrepreneurship as a panacea for inclusive growth in underdeveloped ‘Base of the Pyramid’ (BOP) regions, but it may also lead to unanticipated negative outcomes such as crime and social exclusion. Our objective is to improve the understanding of how entrepreneurship policies can lead to socially inclusive growth at the BOP. Drawing on data collected from Brazilian tourism destinations with varying entrepreneurship, innovation, and social inclusion policies, we argue that weak institutions coupled with alert entrepreneurs encourage destructive outcomes, especially if entrepreneurship policies are based solely on economic indicators. Policies addressing both economic and social perspectives may foster more productive entrepreneurial outcomes, albeit at a more constrained economic pace. The study extends the related BOP, entrepreneurship, global value chain, and sustainable tourism literatures by examining the poor as entrepreneurs, the role of local innovation, and how entrepreneurship policies generate different social impacts within poor communities.

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Due to the enormous variety of application scenarios and ubiquity, Internet of Things (IoT) brought a new perspective of applications for the current and future Internet. The Wireless Sensor Networks provide key devices for developing the IoT communication paradigm, such as the sensors collecting various kind of information and the routing and MAC protocols. However, this type of network has strong power consumption and transmission capacity restrictions (low speed wireless links and subject to interference). In this context, it is necessary to develop solutions that enable a more efficient communication based on the optimized utilization of the network resources. This papers aims to present a multi-objective routing algorithm, named Routing-Aware of path Length, Link quality, and traffic Load (RALL), that seeks to balance three objectives: to minimize bottlenecks, to minimize path length, and to avoid links with low quality. RALL results in good performance when taking into consideration delivery rate, overhead, delay, and power consumption.