“Strategy on Entrepreneurship, Looking at the future”

An experience from Brazil

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING

June, 2015

National Council of Federal Network of Vocational and Technological Education

NATIONAL POLICY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

* Since 2012 (oficially) - Brazilian government is developing a National Policy of Entrepreneurship based on the knowing that the country lives with good internal economic moment, demographic bonus, change in the corporative environment; this is the best moment for achieving high levels of competitive edge and productivity;

* Why? Because this theme plays an important role into the world agenda in different institutions and governments; because this theme is considered, as fifth factor of production (work, money, earth and technology), a channel that makes the market relations more sustainable and permanents;

* Two branches: innovative and small business

* Two of the fields of the NPE, the intermmediate ones, are the qualification/education and technology/innovation;

* Some of the proposals: education more focused into entrepreneurship and innovation; take the services, supports and programs to the countryside; reduction of the taxes; enlargement of the communication about technology and knowledge.

• Adapt the content of technical courses to regional vocations in order to qualify students as potential entrepreneurs

• Create tax incentives for technical and strategic qualification held by the entrepreneur

• Develop entrepreneurial competencies according to the business profile

• Expand government investments in the development of policies and innovative approaches to education

• Working entrepreneurial culture in education from basic education up to post-graduation to train teachers and students with entrepreneurial attitudes;

• Develop a framework for education in entrepreneurship based on pedagogy, encouraging creative methodologies, proper language and insertion in local realities

SOME STRATEGIES IN EDUCATION

SOME STRATEGIES IN TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

• Support and enhance technological extension and graduate programs

that support business creation and value aggregation in products and

processes, both in high-impact innovative enterprises and traditional

industries;

• Promote greater interaction between the private sector, educational field

and government to promote innovative Business environment;

• Promote the culture of intellectual property and the access of

entrepreneurs to protection mechanisms, focusing on trademarks,

patents, designation of origin, design as a strategy and knowledge

sources for innovation;

• Develop entrepreneurship as a support mechanism for innovation in

supply chains and anchored in large companies, using it as a local

development vector.

GOVERNMENT ACTIONS

Creation of EMBRAPII (2013) – Brazilian Institution for Research and Innovation

– 5 Poles of Innovation in Federal Institutes – ES, BA, MG, CE and RJ (Campos)

and 13 Units accredited;

PRONATEC Entrepreneur – short programs offered all over the country in order

to qualify entrepreneurs;

Partnerships with countries in order to send teachers abroad to learn about

entrepreneurship and innovative culture – Canada, Finland, USA;

Special Programs: Hotel of Projects, Technological and Social Incubators,

Professional Master Programs;

Junior Achievement Program: More than 4 million young people were trained into

entrepreneurship programs;

(http://www.jabrasil.org.br/jabr/junior-achievement/resultados)

Science without Borders: One hundred thousand students abroad - Brazilian

institutions will open similar opportunities for foreign scientists and students;

Increase the innovative expertise of personnel from the technological industries;

InovAtiv – special program funded by the government for developing startups

(MDIC);

Primatec Fund – a special fund created to support innovative companies and

entrepreneurs (FINEP);

Promote Junior Enterprises: non-profit companies, formed by undergraduate

students to work with the concepts and market experience (products and services)

– involving more than 23,000 undergraduates and 2,000 institutions

GOVERNMENT ACTIONS

• Professional and Technological Education has as a historic and main role to train people for professional skills:

– Society evolution entails transformation in the organization of work, changing the

employee-employer relationship;

– It becomes thin, ethereal, not compromised;

– More and more the workplace is anywhere;

– The functions of the employees (the best paid) are increasingly complex, requiring

more complex formations;

– Expansion of the possibilities in the way people perform in production;

• PTE, new way? Qualify people for the job not necessarily for employment.

LINK WITH PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION (PTE)

THE IMPORTANCE OF FEDERAL NETWORK FOR THE COUNTRY

Institutions with administrative and financial autonomy created by law 11.892, December 2008, during President’s Lula second term, offering students vertical mobility from secondary technical education to post-graduate studies

Support the integration of the teaching, research and extension

39 Federal Institutes with 560 campuses around the country

EXPANSION

EXPANSION

FEDERAL NETWORK

Technological fields of teaching and research

•Environment and health•Educational support•Industrial process and control•Industrial production•Natural resources•Hospitality and leisure•Food production•Manage and business•Infrastructure•Communication and information•Cultural and design production•Hospitality•Safety•Engineering

EXPANSION

Enrollments – vocational education

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND OUR MISSION

The law that created the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and

Technological Education in Brazil (2008) says that those institutions

have among their purposes and characteristics:

* to promote and to conduct applied research, cultural

production, the entrepreneurship, the cooperativism and the

technological and scientific development;

* to promote and develop the production and the transference of

social technologies, mainly those linked to the environment

preservation;

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A CONCEPT

• Entrepreneurship education is a need in the formation of this new professional

•  We understand entrepreneurship* as:

– Entrepreneur offers good value for the community in any area of human activity. It

is not a private enrichment process;

– Not only creation of new companies. The entrepreneur can be in any area of work:

as a company employee, a government or nonprofit sector, a researcher, an artist

or an autonomous;

* Fernando Dolabella

• We need to form technically qualified professionals but they must be also capable of answering to the needs of the increasing complexity of the world;

•  We need to form students with the skills, the knowledge and the tools to act as an entrepreneur:

– an employee, an intrapreneur;

– a businessman driving his company;

•   In other words - as a citizen able to formulate and to achieve their dreams through positive value to the community.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A CONCEPT

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A CONCEPT

TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION GROUPS (NIT) in Federal Network

Goals

• Guide researchers;

• Transfer technology to productive sector;

• Management of innovation, applied research and entrepreneurship

Results:

•41 NITS working at Federal Network

•683 coordinators and professor developing activities

SOME OF OUR EXPERIENCES

TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION GROUPS (NIT) (in 4 years)

Fields of Research Number of Groups

Agriscience 153

Biological Science 38

Health sciences 26

Exact and Earth Sciences 105

Humans Sciences 172

Applied Social Science 46

Engennering 291

Language and Art 31

SOME OF OUR EXPERIENCES – INOVA IF

IFS works into identifying the

best technology to convert solar

energy into electrical energy for

consumers of small and medium

businesses in the Northeast.

Smarter subway - Researcher IFPE proposed a

method that improve the transport efficiency

SOME OF OUR EXPERIENCES

An App developed by five young students from IFRS – Campus Bento Gonçalves to help

immigrant people in finding job positions and schools. The project was chosen as one of

ten Brazilian finalists Technovation, world's largest technology competition focused on

entrepreneurial young people. The contest is sponsored by the organization American non-

governmental Iridescent and has among global partners Google, the MIT Media Lab,

Facebook and Dropbox.

Six students from IFES won, together with students

from other institutions, the Challenge of Innovation,

promoted by the Brazilian Support Service for Micro

and Small Enterprises (Sebrae). They formed the

Irrigatech team that developed a smart irrigation

system with a new type of focused multi-valve

exclusively for irrigation systems, simpler and cheaper,

reducing costs for the producer and saving water

The team Sleepgeeky SA / E, formed by students of the campus

Victory, won first place into a competition sponsored by Junior

Achievement (SEBRAE). Sleepgeeky was formed by students of

2nd year of technical courses in Construction, Mechanical, Roads

and Electrical Engineering. The company produces cushions with

filling plastic bags, adding comfort, practicality and sustainability.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFAonc46uLk

SOME OF OUR EXPERIENCES

Cláudia Schiedeck Soares de Souza

Rector of IFRS

reitora@ifrs.edu.br

Denio Rebello Arantes

Rector of IFES

arantes@ifes.edu.br

http://www.conif.org.br/

National Council of Federal Network of Vocational and Technological Education