Hotbeds of Active Research as a tool to facilitate Entrepreneurship and Innovation during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The perspective from a pilot plan

Abstract

This article proposes a new method of implementing research active hotbeds with two important components such as innovation and entrepreneurship in computer engineering students considering a case study from Colombia and Costa Rica. The Active Research hotbeds is proposed as a tool to facilitate the generation of new ideas, solutions and proposals to resolve problems of the environment through an exchange of knowledge and a review of different topics between different Latin-American countries using active learning. In addition, a summary table is presented with the contents to be applied through the workshops and learning strategies and tools applied to the students who participated in the pilot plan.