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Fab Labs and Makerspaces for Learning and Innovation: The Case of Arhte Program in Brazil

Fab Labs and Makerspaces for Learning and Innovation: The Case of Arhte Program in Brazil
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Author(s): Sérgio Maravilhas (UNIFACS Salvador University, Brazil)and Joberto S. B. Martins (UNIFACS Salvador University, Brazil)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 12
Source title: Handbook of Research on Strategic Innovation Management for Improved Competitive Advantage
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): George Leal Jamil (InesTec, Portugal), João José Pinto Ferreira (InesTec, Portugal), Maria Manuela Pinto (InesTec, Portugal), Cláudio Roberto Magalhães Pessoa (Universidade Fumec, Brazil)and Alexandra Xavier (InesTec, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3012-1.ch039

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Abstract

A collaborative space for stimulating innovation is a place of learning through the exchange and sharing of knowledge and experience among its members. At the same time, it allows one to leverage innovation using technological resources available in the space, stimulating the creativity of its participants and enabling the development of products and solutions based on personal projects from ideation, or the construction supported on knowledge developed by other elements together, collaboratively, enhancing the final result. These spaces have several designations and typologies, like makerspaces, hackerspaces, techshops, and fab labs. In this chapter, the authors focus on a model, widely tested and in use in several places of the world, the fab lab. The possibility of implementing a fab lab, or fabrication laboratory, or fabulous laboratory, which is a laboratory of digital fabrication, serving as a prototyping platform of physical objects, with broad educational, social, and economic advantages will be analyzed and described.

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