INNOVATION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN TECHNICAL EDUCATION AT COLÉGIO TEUTONIA/RS: TRAJECTORIES AND CHALLENGES
Intellectual Property; Technical Education; Innovation.
Important transformations are taking place in all areas of knowledge, with scientific and technological development that brings education and technology closer together. International movements have affected the way education is structured and work is developed in the school environment. Getting into context, we must consider the present work that relates themes involving Innovation, Intellectual Property (IP) and Professional Education. To improve comprehension of this research environment, the research has as reference the Colégio Teutônia, which is one of the main institutions of professional education in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. The main goal of this work is to analyze how Intellectual Property mechanisms can be used in Innovation protection, resulting from professional internship projects carried out by students in companies associated with the school. The method used will be a mixed approach. As a source of data collection, documentary and bibliographic surveys will be used, as well as in-depth interviews and a survey with the school community. As a temporal analytical cut, the last years (2019 to 2023) will be considered. Among the conclusions, it exposed the fact that the school's community holds little knowledge on intellectual property mechanisms. On the courses’ plans, there are no curricular components that approach the knowledge about IP, nor is there any specific term that predicts protection mechanisms of IP and the innovation in which it takes place during the professional internship period. As a challenge, the formulation of an innovation policy would benefit all the school's community. Finally, a technological product was developed (conclusive technical product) that can serve as support to the educational institution and its community.