Tendencia de los estudiantes universitarios hacia el emprendimiento e innovación social

Abstract

Higher education institutions have the constant challenge of forging young professionals with an entrepreneurial vision so that they respond pertinently to the social problem.

This research describes the internal and external factors of the university context that positively influence the development of an entrepreneurial attitude in university students. For this purpose, a descriptive investigation with a transversal approach was used, considering external context variables such as: political and legal conditions; and, variables of the internal context such as: university infrastructure, curricula and exclusive entrepreneurial activities.

The participants under study were 200 students from four Faculties or Academic Units of the Technical University of Babahoyo (U.T.B.). Students see positively the government policy that supports entrepreneurial initiatives. Similarly, it was determined that the university does promote entrepreneurship through a strategic unit, called the Center for Entrepreneurship and Production (C.E.P). One of the relevant results is the perception that students have, since 87.50% consider that the programs and projects of entrepreneurship executed by the C.E.P., provide the space for the generation of innovative social solutions. Based on a comparative analysis of the IDEAS UTB contest, from 2017 to 2019 of the student intervention in this event of entrepreneurship and social innovation, it was concluded, there is an increase of 83.93%, that is, a significant growing trend.