Agile Innovation Methodologies Applied to Teaching and Research. The Experience in Silicon Valley and Costa Rica
Abstract:
This conference takes a journey through the experience developed in Silicon Valley (California, USA) with the aim of exploring agile innovation methodologies within learning and research processes. By recognizing the trends and best practices generated in higher education institutions (e.g., Stanford University) and in prestigious international business environments (e.g., Google, NASA), it seeks to contribute to the improvement of academic training and the professional profiles of university students, especially in the field of Business Administration, to contribute to the various areas of academic projection. During this immersion in the world's leading innovation ecosystem, semi- structured interviews with experts, academic visits, and observation of best practices, among other activities, were conducted. The findings were processed in the Atlas.ti Program (Version 23.08.0), and the main results support a didactic work to be applied with university students and in teacher training processes. This work includes the approach to seven agile innovation methodologies (e.g., Triz, Storytelling, Design Thinking, SCRUM, among others) and develops a playful strategy called “Agile Stellar Mission,” which integrates a series of challenges to motivate and appropriate the topic. These resources become a roadmap to guide and energize the insertion of agile innovation methodologies in teaching and research, as well as facilitate the design and development of projects and initiatives that integrate these learnings into university education, as contextualized in a pilot experience at the University of Costa Rica, within the School of Business Administration.
