Business internships are part of the wide range of situations that support productive in the University-Industry collaboration. In this context, business practices become favorable places where both business objectives and universities converge. This paper aims to understand two topics. Firstly, the fundamentals of business internships as a component of training by having real-world problems and based on relevant characterization of these experiences. Secondly the paper proposes a methodology of how to achieve internships as a place to search common objectives between the firms and universities. For this second objective is proposed a conceptual model to identify problems together, taking advantage of experience for businesses and updated knowledge developed within the university.