UTFPR-Living Lab: estruturação de um living lab na Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná - Campus Ponta Grossa

Abstract

The adoption of innovation development practices and innovation management, such as the monitoring of promising ideas through appropriate and well-structured methodologies, has contributed to the world scenario transformation, where the idea of co-creation and open innovation has been gaining ground in the launch of innovative products and/or services and, consequently, in successful businesses. All this disseminated by living lab environments, from a collaboration network, the user is the center of study. In this context the idea of living lab is diffused as new educational practices in the teaching of engineering. This work aims to present a proposal of structuration a living lab in Federal Technological University of Paraná - campus Ponta Grossa. The proposal covers the definition of the concepts and relating of the scope of the laboratory to develop. The work included the bibliographic review, based on literature and international experiences, it was possible to outline the main requirements of the UTFPR Living Lab design and develop it in an adapted way of university needs and specific restrictions for the implantation. The results achieved in this work are essential for the continuity of the project for the research for news partnerships with medium and small companies.