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• Enterprise Start-ups In Academic Departments: The GENESIS Project

It is widely acknowledged that the world economy is facing a transformation whose social and economic impacts compares to those of the Industrial Revolution. In today's transfor-mations, traditional employment is giving way to entrepreneurship and traditional employ-ees are losing ground to innovative and risk taking entrepreneurs. This is a world-wide phenomenon which Brazil is already facing. Therefore, higher education students must be prepared to work in this changing global market place. This article describes a project, called Genesis, whose main objective is to provide university students in computer science and related areas with the tools, methods and means to start up new enterprises and become successful entrepreneurs. The project's interaction with science parks and incuba-tors is also discussed.