Planejamento e estruturação de um Laboratório de Inovação: o caso de uma instituição ensino superior privada de Ponta Grossa

Abstract

The city's economic and social development is closely related to its capacity to generate, disseminate, apply and manage knowledge. Thus, higher education, responsible for enabling and producing skills in academics and future professionals, assumes not only a strategic role, but also a leading role in society. In this context, innovation environments within institutions present themselves as catalysts for the flourishing of innovative activity within these spaces. The objective of this work is to present the process of planning and implementing an Innovation Laboratory in a private higher education institution in Ponta Grossa, Paraná as a case of innovation publicizing a model that can be replicated in other private HEIs. For this purpose, a theoretical survey was carried out regarding higher education, triple helix, innovation habitat and idea management. The presented study is classified as a case study because it is about its application in a specific institution. The result of the work is presented with a presentation of the steps and actions carried out by the innovation laboratory with the short-term results it can achieve. In the period analyzed from the second half of 2019 to the first half of 2020, there were 17 events in which the Laboratory participated, and more than 1000 participations from academics and professors. The proposed model will serve as a guiding basis for structuring new innovation laboratories in other higher education institutions.