Eventos Anais de eventos
COBEM 2023
27th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
Startup Experience Initiative: A Modern Approach to Integrating Education, Research, Entrepreneurship, and Soft Skills Training.
Submission Author:
André Bellin Mariano , PR
Co-Authors:
André Bellin Mariano, Flávio Júnior Santiago Silva, Ihana Aguiar Severo, Erick Cordeiro Kollross, JOSÉ VIRIATO COELHO VARGAS
Presenter: André Bellin Mariano
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2023.COB2023-1488
Abstract
Educational institutions provide a space for knowledge, learning, and innovation through scientific research, in addition to providing a support structure for students, professors, and researchers to develop innovative work that promotes sustainability. Within this context are university extension projects, where the objective is to have a social impact on society with actions that can improve people's lives. Based on this, the Startup Experience Initiative aims to explore the contributions of research projects in creating startups as a model of academic entrepreneurship. This work discusses how the proposed methodology can be useful in the application of research knowledge in academic entrepreneurship, identifies the main contributions and challenges of the initiative in the university, and provides a model and guidelines for the implementation of the methodology in educational institutions, as well as involves the application of problem-based/project-based learning (PBL) teaching concepts and focus on the development of innovative entrepreneurship that relates to the productive sector and the local ecosystem (municipality and state). The project also includes university extension actions aimed at disseminating science, technology, and innovation to society, promoting science for all, where it is based on the integration of a) physical spaces for innovation; b) professional training (hard and soft skills); c) interdisciplinarity, and d) actions for entrepreneurship. The Startup Experience Initiative Methodology serves high school, undergraduate and graduate students from different areas of knowledge. Through the Startup Experience methodology, 76 startups were created, which went through the entire process from ideation to the creation of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), through courses lasting 20, 45, 60, and 149 hours. More than 300 students from various undergraduate, specialization, master's, and doctoral courses were directly involved in this process. Some of the startups developed through this program are already operating in the market, demonstrating the effectiveness of the adopted educational approach and highlighting the importance of educational design as a tool to promote entrepreneurial education and the development of practical skills in an academic environment.
Keywords
Startup Experience, Soft Skills, Entrepreneurship, university extension
