Análisis de las características y la efectividad de los espacios de innovación y su aporte al emprendimiento de los estudiantes universitarios

Abstract

This research studies what the university has generated the skilled and specialized workforce tobenefit the business sector and the national economy, dissulting new knowledge and technological advances. Given the limited number of jobs, higher education units are evolving, to contribute new student-created businesses, which involves new sources of employment. The aim of this empirical research is to identify the types of innovation or coworking spaces that exist in the universities of the city of Guayaquil, to achieve this objective, documentary and descriptive research was raised, with a quantitative and qualitative approach, applying the techniques literature review and survey. A small number of universities were found to have innovation spaces, so there is a lack of incentive for students university students on entrepreneurship issues. It was also known that, in universities that do own Coworking, a large number of students are predisposed to create business units. Some suggestions were made, such as: facilitating sources of funding to start ventures, strategy programmes to undertake and idea generators for a business.