Boosting skills and abilities of innovation and creativity in university students

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is a quality and ability that a person has to prepare a thought to do something new and innovative and / or a business project, through ideas and opportunities. Entrepreneurship is a word immensely used in the business environment, by virtue of its relationship with the creation of some innovative activity, companies, new products or innovation of existing ones.

In this part of our research, four micro-entrepreneurial processes are considered from the prospective perspective and the foundational principles that must be present transversally throughout the process, as well as the integration of these methods in the professional training of its students, based on of its institutional philosophy, background and contextualization, considering the changes in the epistemological horizons of knowledge, the new international trends in higher education, as well as the current social demands placed on Ecuadorian Universities, to guarantee the academic excellence and quality of the institution.

Therefore, it is necessary within this research work to implement a theoretical-academic management model for the development of innovative entrepreneurship policies and programs at the Catholic University of Cuenca UCACUE, which is part of the doctoral thesis of the author of this article that contributes to the training of new entrepreneurs in different careers in correspondence with the economic and social demand of the territory.

To this end, it is important to strengthen the academic management of the training of leaders and entrepreneurs at UCACUE, through the integration of curricular and extracurricular activities and programs, carried out in the Academic Units within a common institutional plan.

The purpose is to determine the institutional policies for the generation of a culture of commitment, collaboration and consensus that are articulated with the axes of teaching, research and connection during the next five-year period, which contributes to development and competitiveness, considering the institutional strategy of Research, Development, Innovation and Incubation called (R + D + i).

The model generates learning spaces with members of the University community and entrepreneurial and business actors from the locality and the country; to take advantage of the institutional capacity for the management of continuous training projects in the field of innovative entrepreneurship, committed to the sustainable development of Ecuador and especially the region 6.