A Systematic Mapping Study On Software Startups Education

Abstract

This study aims to characterize the state-of-the-art of the software startup education by analyzing and identifying best practices, opportunities and gaps on this field. To do so, we conducted a systematic mapping study in order to analyze and evaluate studies on software startup education. As a result, we found 31 publications in this process. These studies were classified into four categories: real projects, multidiscipline, environment and teaching. We concluded that research on software startup education is still scarce. Furthermore, there are several gaps and opportunities to be explored in future works. One of them is the difficulty in providing a real world experience in a educational setting. Successful cases reported combine three major components: real world projects, the right environment and a multidisciplinary context.

The Startup Scratch Book – Opening the Black Box of Startup Education

“…Though some entrepreneurship courses also discuss startups, courses focusing specifically on startup entrepreneurship are common. These courses are common in IT disciplines as well [2,3], given how many startups focus on software or hardware. Even if a startup does not sell software, software is typically at the center of its business and plays a key role in delivering value (e.g.…”

“…This typology arguably applies to startup education as well. As Chanin et al [2,3] remark, startup education rather commonly utilizes teaching "through" (startup) entrepreneurship approaches. As are often associated with characteristics such as inexperienced team and lack of resources, they are arguably easier to found or simulate in an educational setting with students -and, in fact, many startups are founded by students.…”

“…It seems to be common in startup education to utilize approaches that focus on learning by doing [2,3]. This is hardly unheard of in entrepreneurship education in general, as many such course take approaches that focus on teaching students "for" entrepreneurship, preparing them to do so in practice, or "through" entrepreneurship in a simulated or real manner [17].…”

“…These types of teaching approaches often result in courses that are not organized in the typical lectures (and exercises) into an exam manner. New types of assignments and grading criteria are needed to evaluate work happening in a real or simulated startup during the course [2,3].…”

Para além das grades curriculares: o valor das vivências formativas em empreendedorismo durante a graduação

“…Além da análise fatorial, algumas variações em médias apontaram possíveis dinâmicas específicas em cursos de saúde (como o papel da iniciação científica) ou ciência da computação (como o papel de entidades estudantis ligadas a tecnologia). Em ciências da computação, a literatura já tem apresentado um início de pesquisas no que é chamado de "software startups education" nesse contexto, com primeiras revisões de boas práticas publicadas (Chanin, Sales, Pompermaier & Prikladnicki, 2018;Daimi & Rayess, 2008), bem como casos brasileiros sendo apresentados, como o trabalho de Melegati, Guerra, Knop e Wang (2019) na proposição de um jogo de tabuleiro para o ensino de formação de times em startups.…”