Abstract:
The research emerges from the debates on endogenous or territorial development that have
permeated the world since the 1980s with the changes resulting from globalization, but
emphasizing the nine intangible capitals proposed by Boisier in his studies as factors that should
be present in the development process. It seeks to identify the intangible capitals in the
production of Canastra artisancheese in the municipalities of Medeiros and São Roque de
Minas. It is a research approach is quantitative-qualitative, since it brings quantifiable data in
the adapted questionnaire and at the same time complements these data measuring opinions
obtained in the interviews and method used was a case study with a form structured in the
format of Likert Scale of 5 points adapted from the World Bank and interviews applied to
cheese producers, traders from the municipalities of Medeiros and São Roque de Minas, and to
public and private institutions directly or not involved in the production of artisanal cheese
observing the cooperation, trust and other characteristics of intangible capital present in the
local community of the two municipalities. Data analysis showed a dispersion of the nine
intangible capitals mentioned by Boisier in the municipalities studied without an integrative
agent in them, establishing the understanding that the articulation of the capitals found did not
establish a synergy to boost the development of the region.
