Blended Learning and Consulting for Resource Limited Enterprises - The Case of a Prototyping, Production and Logistics Service Centre at a Business Incubator in Brazil

J. Antão B. Moura, Marcelo A. de Barros, Francilene P. Garcia

2013

Abstract

Start-ups and other innovative, but small enterprises – such as those associated with business incubators - usually have financial limitations that hinder their attempt to properly address product and service lifecycle challenges. Some of these challenges regard aspects of prototyping, production and logistics (PPL). Inability to properly address PPL challenges sometimes delays time-to-market too long, causing the company to fail. In order to assist companies to efficiently address PPL challenges, a low-operating-cost, risk-seeking, PPL Service Centre is being planned for an incubator in Brazil. In order to account for financial restrictions, the Centre’s operations are to be based on blended learning pedagogy but expanded to encompass provision of consulting services and access to laboratory and workshop’ facilities. Creating such a Centre is timing consuming and resource intensive. Therefore it must be demonstrated that the investment will be worthwhile. A small investigation has been conducted which has looked into the PPL needs of technologybased enterprises associated with the incubator. The results have been used to specify and initially operate the Centre to allow for a more blended style in service provision. This paper summarizes the investigation, its results and the Centre’s initial operation and preliminary achievements.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Antão B. Moura J., A. de Barros M. and P. Garcia F. (2013). Blended Learning and Consulting for Resource Limited Enterprises - The Case of a Prototyping, Production and Logistics Service Centre at a Business Incubator in Brazil . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8565-53-2, pages 477-483. DOI: 10.5220/0004342504770483

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu13,
author={J. Antão B. Moura and Marcelo A. de Barros and Francilene P. Garcia},
title={Blended Learning and Consulting for Resource Limited Enterprises - The Case of a Prototyping, Production and Logistics Service Centre at a Business Incubator in Brazil},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2013},
pages={477-483},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004342504770483},
isbn={978-989-8565-53-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Blended Learning and Consulting for Resource Limited Enterprises - The Case of a Prototyping, Production and Logistics Service Centre at a Business Incubator in Brazil
SN - 978-989-8565-53-2
AU - Antão B. Moura J.
AU - A. de Barros M.
AU - P. Garcia F.
PY - 2013
SP - 477
EP - 483
DO - 10.5220/0004342504770483