Formación en innovación y emprendimiento: la situación educativa en Ecuador y sus implicaciones

Abstract

Abstract: Entrepreneurial training plays an important role in the lives of people who decide to start a business. Adequate training can strengthen entrepreneurial skills and avoid common mistakes in managing the new company, leading teams, creating new products or services, among others. This study analyzes entrepreneurial training in Ecuador and its impact on entrepreneurial skills, additionally its aim is to identify the ideological and conceptual aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship in the educational field. The study seeks the implications of entrepreneurial training through qualitative research, interviews and interpretive focus analysis. The results show that the majority of entrepreneurs have informal entrepreneurship and lack strategic, technical and operational knowledge about entrepreneurship. The importance of entrepreneurial training is evident, which can avoid mistakes and provide an overall view of how to undertake. The research has sampling limitations, but serves to express the reality of a delimited social group.