Tecnología al Servicio de un Proceso de Gestión de Prácticas Virtuales en Empresas: Propuesta y Primeros Resultados del Semester of Code

[EN] — This paper explains the Virtual Alliances for Learning Society (VALS) European Project technological approach to support a virtual placements management process. Also this paper shows the first results of the practical part of the project, the Semester of Code, explaining the detected problems, the issues, the challenges and some actions to improve the development of this kind of virtual placements programmes. In order to allow the readers to get better comprehension of the approach and its results, the manuscript also describes three of the main virtual placements programs around the world, in both ways, regarding the organization and the technological approach they have

Open Source, Open Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights – A Lightning Talk

Part 2: Lightning TalksInternational audienceOpen innovation projects are fast paced aiming at producing a quick proof of concept of an innovative software product. This need for speedy results makes the use of open source components as a basis for the work appealing. Open source brings with it an inherent risk of license conflicts that may become an issue when aiming to develope an innovative demo into an actual product. In this study, the first results of investigating the knowledge the participants of innovation projects have on intellectual property are presented. The effect this may have on the project results is also discussed