Euvaldo Lodi Institute of Rio de Janeiro

Euvaldo Lodi Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IEL Rio) is the equivalent of the Brazilian Euvaldo Lodi Institute, created by the National Confederation of Industry along with the Industry Social Service (SESI) and the National Industrial Training Service in 1969. Except it only covers Rio de Janeiro state, instead of all the Brazilian territory.

EUVALDO LODI INSTITUTE OF RIO DE JANEIRO
INSTITUTO EUVALDO LODI DO RIO DE JANEIRO
AbbreviationIEL Rio
Formation29 January 1969 (1969-01-29)
TypeNon-profit organization
PurposeTo unite academy, research institutes and industry
HeadquartersCentro (Rio de Janeiro)
Location
Region
Rio de Janeiro,  Brazil
Services
Official language
Brazilian Portuguese
AffiliationsFIRJAN System
WebsiteFirjan.org.br

The main goal of IEL Rio is to unite academy and institutes of science and technology with industry. Amongst its objectives, there are development of entrepreneurship programs in order to promote the creation of new leaderships and the adoption, in the graduation curriculum, of disciplines about the entrepreneurial action.[1]

Besides, it encourages innovative programs and projects, as well as innovation and technology management, introducing technological and intellectual products from institutions in companies, which generates more industrial competitiveness.[2]

Academy and companies

IEL Rio, entity that integrates the FIRJAN System, concentrates in the university-market relationship, specifically through two programs:

  • Junior Enterprises Support Program: guides the formation of companies in universities, in other words, those that are totally created and managed by students. Such help is important because those enterprises aim at professional practice when students render consultancy in the job market. They can also count on professors' help;[3]
  • Business Incubator Support Program: organizations that host these Junior Enterprises (or Incubated Enterprises) are called Business incubators. What IEL Rio does is give support to universities for the creation and development of incubators (not to be confused with seed accelerators), thus helping to consolidate incubators in the market.[4]

The main universities in Rio de Janeiro are IEL Rio's partners.[5]

Other ways of acting

With respect to technology and innovation, IEL Rio develops programs and projects such as the below:

EDITION YEAR THEME
I2007Entrepreneurship Seminar and Fair (various themes)
II2008II Entrepreneurship Seminar (various themes)
III2009Opportunities and challenges in the virtual world
IV2010Making ideas come true
V2011Rio entrepreneurs
VI2012Access to capital and innovation
VII2013Large companies that are investing in startups in Brazil
VIII2014Innovative Entrepreneurship
  • "IEL Week in universities" is an event that travels through academic centers of Rio de Janeiro state in order to "share experiences that contribute to knowledge diffusion, generating new ideas and inspiring entrepreneurship, as well as creative and innovative solutions".[10] Its main objectives include the creation of a channel for partnerships between academy and IEL Rio, the generation of ideas, the Institute promotion and promotion of entrepreneurship.[9] Statistics:
2011 2012 2013
Students3,2824,5644,750
Universities789
  • IEL Forum of Strategic Management's main objective is to promote, through lectures, qualified information about strategic management. Lecturers from Brazil and other countries are invited to debate with Rio de Janeiro's businessmen.[11]
  • "My Future Business", in partnership with Genesis Institute from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, is aimed at PUC-Rio's students with higher education level and beyond. The course encourages the development and implementation of entrepreneurial ideas, which is why it comprehends meetings with businessmen and investors (they teach how to prepare business plans and to make sales pitches) and classes that approach related themes, such as financing lines. The authors of the three best ideas receive as a prize six months of "pre-incubation" in Genesis Institute (with group entrepreneurship methodology), while the best pitch gives to its author a short international course. The course is free of charge and vacancies, limited.[12]

Generally, these courses last three months, with meetings once a week, which sum twelve classes. Entrepreneurs have taught lessons, representing companies such as Spoleto, Koni, Niely, Via Mia and Peixe Urbano. They talk about their experiences as entrepreneurs, while FIRJAN System representatives teach about competitiveness. Students of design, management, engineering, communication and architecture that desire to give the first step in elaborating new projects and companies usually take part in these courses.

According to Alberto Besser, superintendent of IEL Rio, the intention is to "inspire students to generate ideas and to turn them into business."[13] The course is part of the Entrepreneurs Formation Program (PFE) from Entrepreneurship Teaching Coordination (CEMP) of PUC-Rio's Genesis Institute.

History of national IEL

Looking at the institute's history, it is possible to identify some phases. In its first seventeen years, from 1969 to 1986, the focus was limited to integrating industry and university. Afterwards, the efforts also concentrated in the analysis of the results achieved by the projects intended to unite productive sector and academy, not to mention the grouping of these projects in operational programs.

The third period is influenced by the National Plan for the Interaction Industry-University for 1990, aiming to support technological projects for industry development through the following strategies: "technological, sindical, of regional vocation, to support the small and medium industries, of CNI System institutional integration, to protect the values of free enterprise and of permanent interchange amongst the parties involved in politics".[14]

And despite searching for higher production and better quality in industry, IEL also looked for "eradicating iliteray, expanding basic education and professionally qualifying expressive human quotas" and, thus, put Brazil in the international market.[15]

IEL Rio

With respect to its local operations, the Institute considers important to develop a particular vision of each Brazilian reality. That is why IEL's core keeps the Regional Commissions and the Sectoral Committees.[15] In fact, in the first article of its own statute of creation it is foreseen that the Institute may use Regional Cells in the states and in the Federal District in order to execute its objectives. In Chapter V, specifically, it establishes that the Central Nucleus has the power to "delegate the execution of activities to the Regional Cells in the implementation of programs, projects, agreements and other actions"[16] (chapter V, article 26). This way, each nucleus would be directed by the "local Industry Federation president, would count on a regional director and an Advisory Counsel comprising three representatives, from the Federation, SENAI and SESI".[17] Due to this premise, IEL Rio and the other spread all over Brazil exist.

Euvaldo Lodi

The politician Euvaldo Lodi and the engineer Roberto Simonsen were honored by industry thanks to their work: while the first one gave its name to IEL, the second one became the name of "a stutides and research institute of the Industry Federation of São Paulo State, which comprehends in its structure the COPS – Superior Council of Political and Social Guidance".[18]

Notes

  1. One of the most known entities in this field in Brazil is Funding Authority for Studies and Projects (Finep), current Brazilizn Agency of Innovation (more information in the webpage Financiamento não reembolsável Archived 19 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine).

See also

References

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  2. "Instituto Euvaldo Lodi / IEL". FIRJAN System. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  3. "Programa de apoio às empresas juniores". FIRJAN System. Archived from the original on 27 November 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  4. "Programa de apoio às incubadoras de empresas". FIRJAN System. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  5. "Instituições parceiras do IEL". FIRJAN System. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  6. "Capacitação empresarial". FIRJAN System. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  7. "Contratar estagiários do Senai é a melhor forma de preparar profissionais qualificados para o futuro de sua empresa". FIRJAN System. Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  8. "FIRJAN realiza IV Seminário de Empreendedorismo IEL-RJ 2010". FIRJAN System. Archived from the original on 19 May 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  9. "O papel do Sistema FIRJAN/IEL no desenvolvimento da cultura empreendedora nas universidades e empresas (PPT com 3,4MB)". Balog, Daniela. 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  10. "Semana IEL nas universidades – Ideias que viram negócio". Shell, Iniciativa Jovem. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  11. "Fórum IEL de Gestão Empresarial traz ao Brasil o professor David Smallbone". FIRJAN System. Archived from the original on 16 February 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  12. "Inscrições abertas para a 2ª edição do "Meu Futuro Negócio"". Genesis Institute. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  13. "IEL promove "Meu Futuro Negócio" na PUC-Rio". FIRJAN System. Archived from the original on 19 May 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  14. IEL (1994), Realizações da política nacional de interação indústria universidade (1969–1990), III, Cadernos IEL, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Euvaldo Lodi
  15. IEL (1994), Instituto Euvaldo Lodi. Uma época: 25 anos (1969–1994), Rio de Janeiro: Sistema CNI
  16. "Estatuto: Instituto Euvaldo Lodi Núcleo Central (PDF – 393KB)" (PDF). Euvaldo Lodi Institute. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  17. "Instituto Euvaldo Lodi: relatório de 40 anos de atividades (PDF – 4MB)". Euvaldo Lodi Institute. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  18. Beloch, I. & Fagundes, L. R. (1997), Sistema FIRJAN: a história dos 170 anos da representação industrial no Rio de Janeiro, 1827–1997, Rio de Janeiro: Memória Brasil Projetos Culturais Ltda.
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