Long- term unemployment doubled in Europe between 2007 - 14  despite the recent recovery which  is slowly translating into more jobs .  The effects are felt  severely by youth ;  t he longer they remain unemployed, the more difficult it is  for them to get hired again.  As a method t o cope with youth unemployment ,  the  EU ’s Leonardo Programme  has been  fundi ng projects intended to  enhance  the  entrepreneurship skills of young people. YENTELS  ( Young European  Entrepreneurs E - Learning Suite)  and YEU  (Youth Enterprise and Unemployment)  projects are examples of such platforms that provide online  resources for  enterprising. The e - learning platform , including a serious game,  dev eloped during YEU project  paid close attention to young people who are not  employed, in education or training. This study  aims  to report the process  and  results  of  the  user needs analysis conducted for  the  YEU e - learning platform  in order to  tackle  the issue of youth unem ployment  by incorporating the  viewpoints and needs of multiple stakeholders  in the context of  entrepreneurship.  By means  of  p rimary and secondary research methods ,  feedback  was  obtained  from a total of approximately 40 stakeholders and 900 young people across Europe. A range of quantitative and qualitative research  findings  were  identifie d  in  the areas of youth  un employment , entrepreneurship  skills  and  policy making , with  genera l  observations and experiences also  recorded by  the project partners from seven countries.  The  conclusions of the  analysis  present  valuable  implications  in the areas of European policies ,  young  people’s employment,  and business start - up issues .  The s tudy  also provides  recommendations at  a  general level to improve  the  employability of young  people .

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: IMPLICATIONS FROM USER NEEDS ANALYSIS FOR e- LEARNING PLATFORM YEU

Context : The aims of the Observatory of Innovation in Healthcare Management in Catalonia are to collect, validate, organize and value, the knowledge of the Catalan health system from many innovative experiences that are being developed today. The Observatory brings together the efforts made by the organisations in innovating in several spheres of management. It provides a forum for compiling innovative experiences and it offers an innovation community web page fostering interaction among 450 professionals who exchange their experiences. Methods : The process to register an innovative experience starts first with the signing up in the Innovation community. Innovative experiences should met criteria on implementation, bringing a change, impact on resources and scalability. Secondly, organisations may submit a self-assessment of their experiences. Then, the review and the self-assessment evaluation of the innovative management experiences constitutes the third context in which the Observatory operates, conducting a quality analysis done by the OIGS, to check that the experience meets with the established inclusion criteria. Experiences which pass the assessment phase are then awarded a certificate of quality issued by the AQuAS. Results : The Observatory compiles a total of 183 innovative experiences. The majority of these experiences are focused on improving strategic and care processes, handling patients with chronic illnesses, use of healthcare information technology and the consumption of pharmaceuticals in the area of primary and specialized care. A total of 49 out of the 183 experiences fall within the specialized care in coordination with primary care area of action; 45 experiences refer to the area of specialized care. In terms of key themes, 101 experiences deal with improvements in care procedures and strategies, followed by 26 experiences concerning management of chronic care patients, 25 regarding ICT and telemedicine, and 12 pharmaceutical experiences. Discussion : The Observatory of Innovation in Healthcare Management in Catalonia brings together the efforts made by the organisations in innovation in several spheres of management One of the main challenges however will be to support scalability and transferability of these innovative experiences (new care pathway, service or technology) that have the potential for wide scale spread in other areas to improve in the end outcomes and patient satisfaction. Conclusions : The identification of innovative experiences allows compiling some of the best practices observed in the system. The Observatory through the public and innovation community website constitutes a display cabinet for supporting transferability of good practices and it also forges ties among institutions creating synergies and joint projects. One of the main challenges in the future will be to identify barriers and drivers for the implementation, sharing problems, acknowledging failures and finding solutions in different contexts for the adoption and spread of good practices.

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The Observatory of Innovation in Healthcare Management in Catalonia: supporting transferability of good experiences in healthcare management

Nos últimos anos, o termo Indústria 4.0 tem sido muito abordado, principalmente em função das várias tecnologias que estão em desenvolvimento, e até mesmo em uso, impactando a indústria e os sistemas sociotécnicos em todo o mundo. Em alguns países, entidades de apoio à indústria começaram a promover programas para acelerar empresas que usam esse tipo de tecnologia na proposta de valor de seus negócios. Em função dessa realidade, o presente trabalho tem por objetivo descrever e analisar como foi a elaboração de um programa de aceleração de startups por meio da abordagem de workshops. A metodologia de pesquisa utilizada foi a Pesquisa-Ação. Para tanto, foi realizado um estudo sobre temas que seriam fundamentais para fazer parte dos workshops, juntamente com uma análise de benchmarking de alguns programas de aceleração em outros países. Reuniões de preparação foram realizadas até a construção de uma agenda para os dois workshops. A aplicação dos workshops se mostrou útil para uma melhor visualização e engajamento dos participantes ao longo da elaboração de um modelo de aceleração piloto.

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Abordagem de workshops na estruturação de um programa de aceleração de startups com soluções da indústria 4.0

In the last decades, there has been growing interest in the subject of social relevance of management knowledge. A burgeoning scientific literature followed. This study seeks to map this vast terri...

Looking for Social Relevance: The Saga of Knowledge Production Models in Management Research

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Paulo Augusto Isnard

Papers

STARTUPS, INOVAÇÃO E EMPREENDEDORISMO: um mapeamento sistemático da produção científica