Experience of learning technovation for i-entrepreneurship training: how to prepare the students for digital economy?
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Introduction: with the advance of digital economy and to avoid the feared technological stoppage, it is urgent to reconcile university and entrepreneurship, with the help of applications and artificial intelligence that facilitate this mission. Objective: to present a technovation learning experience, which trains students to become i-entrepreneurs. Method: the design is a descriptive and exploratory study that systematizes the background of ten years of experience, based on an active and collaborative learning experience, with gamification and inverted classroom, for teams that simulate being startups in a contest. Results: the content and structure provide a diagnosis of the situation, followed by a presentation of the experience and the main points in its development and implementation, to help anyone interested in replicating it. Among the results and findings, it is worth highlighting the greater commitment of the students, increasing their attendance and participation, verified in the grades and in the teaching quality surveys. Conclusion: This learning experience shows how to become a digital entrepreneur and thus overcome the dreaded technological unemployment. Students have been able to see for themselves the necessary relationship between the academic and professional worlds, as well as being able to undertake their own projects after the experience in the classroom.
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