دورية أكاديمية
Women as Industry 4.0. entrepreneurs: Unlocking the potential of entrepreneurship in higher education in STEM-related fields
| العنوان: | Women as Industry 4.0. entrepreneurs: Unlocking the potential of entrepreneurship in higher education in STEM-related fields |
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| المؤلفون: | Serrano, Dolores R., Fraguas-Sánchez, Ana Isabel, González-Burgos, Elena, Martín, Paz, Llorente, Catalina, Lalatsa, Aikaterini |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | EconStor (German National Library of Economics, ZBW) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | ddc:650, Higher Education, Industry 4.0, Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, Women entrepreneurship |
| الوصف: | Industry 4.0 is the realization of digital transformation including enhanced productivity and flexibility due to real-time decision-making, which is possible due to the high-speed internet, the internet of things, and smart machines capable of autonomously exchanging information, triggering actions, and controlling each other independently. A high level of education and skills is increasingly more important in the job market over the next years necessitating finding a balance among behavioural, technological, analytical, and entrepreneurial skills. EU and governments worldwide should invest in closing the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education as this will directly impact the economic growth. Even though there is some progress in the hiring percentage of women in large technological companies, a clear glass ceiling in leadership roles is still remains. Here, we have undertaken a pilot study at University Complutense of Madrid (UCM, Spain) aimed at empowering women in academia to transition from the "publish or perish" paradigm towards creating and protecting their intellectual property to close the gender gap in STEM fields and leadership roles as well as training to fuel the development of innovative start-ups addressing societal challenges. A total of 20 participants inclusive of UCM staff and postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers were enrolled after successfully obtaining at least a score of 5 out of 10 in custom-made Entrepreneurial competency test provided by Business and Professional Women Association (BPW, Spain) and theGrowBox Innovation Ltd. The study, approved by the UCM ethical committee, was conducted after participants engaged and completed a training programme on "Enterpreneurship in STEM-related fields in Higher Education" aimed to introduce the participants to the entrepreneurial world. This involved a structured training programme covering the (i) business canvas design; (ii) development of minimum viable product (MVP); (iii) market evaluation; (iv) ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2192-5372 |
| العلاقة: | gbv-ppn:1884195695; Journal: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Volume: 12; Year: 2023; Issue: 1; Pages: 1-18; https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290301Test |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13731-023-00346-4 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13731-023-00346-4Test https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290301Test |
| حقوق: | https://www.econstor.eu/dspace/NutzungsbedingungenTest ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.4342FCA3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 21925372 |
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| DOI: | 10.1186/s13731-023-00346-4 |