ENTREPRENEURS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

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ENTREPRENEURS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• SUMMARY REPORT
• Guayaquil-Ecuador
• April 2008

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Objectives

• Developmental objective
• Ecuadorian companies improve their
  competitiveness
• Academic Objective
• The institutional capacity of ESPOL to generate
  relevant research based knowledge and services in
  strategic areas of national development, and
  provide innovative quality training is enhanced.
  Leadership and local reference in
  entrepreneurship is attained.

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Objectivesattainment

• The main indicators of objective attainment are
• institutionalization of entrepreneurship
  education at ESPOL,
• ESPOL is a local and regional referent in
  entrepreneurship education
• the number of start-ups among ESPOL graduates (
  not verifiable in the short term)
• research projects conducted by our faculty.

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RELEVANT ACTIVITIESEntrepreneurship
CourseEntrepreneurship and Technology
Innovation

• GOALS
• Instructional
• Motivation to start a new business
• Work on students entreprenurial skills, profile,
  and knowledge
• Uncover myths and become a potential triggering
  event
• Reinforces other activities such as
• Teacher trainig, critical mass for events or
  contests, starting portential business ideas,
  baseline for other courses, teaching tools
  developmet, research
• Methodology
• Experiential What are my students going TO DO
  today?
• Relate to the real world cases, project,
  mini-business, networking
• Focus on entreprenurial profile and skill while
  deploying content

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Entrepreneurship course

• Mandatory course
• Interdisciplinary within each Department

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EJE Junior Enterprise

• People
• Management 32
• Operations 65
• 7 generations
• Higher levels of self efficacy in Innovation,
  Risk Taking, Networking and Opportunity
  Identification
• 100 of ex members are working for private
  companies
• Participation in 4 international entrepreneurial
  conferences

• Projects
• 11 successful consultancy projects in industrial
  and food engineering
• 2 running projects

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EJE Junior Enterprise

• Participation in Pilas 2007 congress in Córdoba,
  Argentina
• Awards
• Best Enterprise
• Best Selling Enterprise
• Best Capitalization
• Best Advertising
• Best Product.

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ESPOL INNOVA CONTEST
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Pre Incubation

• Name of the group NeoSoft
• Name of the project DentOS
• Members Miss Lisette Elizabeth Espín Noboa and
  Mr. Erick Enrique Ortega Cabrera Brief
  description of the project
• DentOS is a system of dental control that allows
  to eliminate the documentation in paper, and
  allows a fast and efficient access to all the
  information of the Dentist's office and the
  patients. It consists of 10 modules, (Patient,
  Odontogram, Periodontogram, Made Treatments,
  Quotations, Accounts to receive, Payments,
  Appointments, Accounts to pay, Treatments and
  Users of the System). It is directed to those
  Dentists that have at least a computer and a
  printer in their offices.
• Note This group was the winner of the second
  place of ESPOL INNOVA 2007 contest.
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OVERALL RELEVANT ACTIVITIES

• WORKSHOPS
• Workshop on Entrepreneurship for ESPOL students
  leaders delivered by Guido Caicedo, 2003.
• One day intensive workshop for Vlir promoters and
  ESPOL researchers on Entrepreneurship
  technology commercialization, March 12/2004.
• Open workshop in Entrepreneurship Technology
  Commercialization for ESPOL faculty , 2005.
• La universidad emprendedora one day workshop for
  sharing experiences with local universities. July
  2004
• Entrepreneurship faculty Workshop Two weeks
  workshop in preparation for the delivery of
  courses at FIMCP, FIEC, ICHE. April-May 2005.
• First conference on entrepreneurship research.
  July 2005
• Starting my own business July 2005 Students 1
  day workshop

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• Starting my own business. July 2006 Students 1
  day workshop
• Entrepreneurship faculty workshop Two weeks
  workshop in preparation for the delivery of
  courses at EDCOM, ICM, FIMCP, ICHE and
  Technologies.
• Entrepreneurship workshops for student of the
  project Empresa Juvenil Yo Conozco Mi Ciudad.
   One per month ( December, January, March, April
  and September)
• Yearly faculty workshops

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RELEVANT ACTIVITIES

• PROJECTS
• Assesment of entrepreneurial intentions of ESPOL
  undergraduates. ESPOL seed fund 2003.()
• A study to assess the impact of ESPOL alumni in
  the creation of technology based business.VLIR
  competitive funds 2003.()
• Assessment of the influence of the
  entrepreneurship courses in MBA students.
• Business Plan on line Business plan summaries
  are available for on line access through ESPAE
  web CEEMP web sites ()
• () extra activities

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RELEVANT ACTIVITIES

• SEAFEA grant from Corporacion Andina de Fomento,
  CAF, obtained jointly with 5 other universities
  for faculty training, academic materials
  development ( videos, cases, games and course
  slides) Co-finance d by ESPOL ()
• REE. Roundtable on Entrepreneurship education
  in Latin America held in Chile in 2005 and
  organized by Stanford University ESPOL was
  nominated the host for year 2006 () Funds from
  ESPOL other sponsors.
• Junior Enterprise Yo conozco mi ciudad. A
  project for Guayaquil City Hall)- DASE(
  Directorate for education and social action.
  Education and coaching for University students in
  Tourism Hospitality careers to support the
  project.() Contract

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RELEVANT ACTIVITIES

• Tecnosemilla ESPOL seed fund to support students
  start-ups.()
• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, GEM, Ecuador
  2004. Conducted by ESPAE CEEMP () Funds from
  ESPOL private sponsors.
• Burkenroad Reports for Latinamerica. A Tulane
  University initiative already in progress at
  Business schools in Colombia, Venezuela and
  Mexico.BR are valuation reports of small and
  medium companies that will promote those to get
  access to investors.() Funds from Guayaquil
  Stock Market (BVG) and ESPAE/ESPOL.

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RELEVANT ACTIVITIES

• Foro andino de jóvenes emprendedores. CAN-CEEMP,
  August 2006.
• IDB Project Feasibility study for
  entrepreneurship promotion in Ecuador. Programa
  de Cooperación Técnica TC No. EC-T1066. August
  June 2007.
• REE LA 2006, Roundtable on Entrepreneurship
  Education, November 8-10. Stanford University
  CEEMP.
• Innovation Challenge 2007 ( patnnership with
  Stanford University)
• Innovation Tournament 2008

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• IIJornadas de Investigación en Emprendimiento
  August 2007- Chair Edgar Izquierdo
• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor GEM Ecuador2008
• Participation in E- world- Global Research
  project in entrepreneurship led by Department of
  Management College of Business Administration-
• Missouri State University

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ESPOL as a referent in Entrepreenurship Education
in LA

• The director of the Entrepreneurship Center,Guido
  Caicedo attended the following events and
  integrated the center in several networks
• Octubre 2005 - RoundTable on Entrepreneurship
  Education USA - Stanford, Invited as a host for
  REElA 2006.
• November 2005 - ROundTable on Entrepreneurship
  Education Latin
• America - Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Marzo 2006 - MIT Global Startup Workshop -
  Buenos Aires, Argentina -
• Abril 2006 - Taller Implementación, Operación y
  Sostenibilidad del SEAFE - Caracas, Venezuela.
  Invited by CAF

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ESPOL as a referent in Entrepreenurship Education
in LA

• August 2006 - Taller "CAF Emprende Encuentro
  Internacional para el desarrollo empresarial" -
  Medellín, Colombia - Panel IncubaciónEmpresarial
  y Servicios de Soporte Parte 1 Invited by
  CAF
• September 2006 - RoundTable on Entrepreneurship
  Education Europe - Munich, Alemania Host
  Panel The state of entrepreneurship education
  around the world
• Octubre 2006 - RoundTable on Entrepreneurship
  Education USA - Stanford, Co- host Panel
  Entrepreneurship Education in Latin America

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ESPOL as a referent in Entrepreenurship Education
in LA

• REE 2007- Prof. Caicedo acted as a mentor in the
  REE Fellows program, tutoring students around the
  world.
• REE LA 2007- Rio de Janeiro. Presentationof an
  academic exercise developed by CEEMP Buyers
  sellers
• Universidad del Norte Barranquilla- Colombia-
  Seminar for faculty thaugth by prof. Caicedo.

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Publications presentations

• CONFERENCES PRESENTATIONS
• Arteaga, E. Lasio V. (2007). Empresas
  dinámicas en Ecuador Factores de éxito y
  competencias de sus fundadores, XVIII Congreso
  Latinoamericano sobre Espíritu Empresarial
  realizado en Lima del 6 al 8 de noviembre
• Izquierdo, E. , Cardenas, J. (2005). Barriers to
  effective performance of business incubators in
  Ecuador. Conference of Businesess Association of
  Latinamerican Studies, BALAS.
• Izquierdo, E., Caicedo, G., Chiluiza, K. "Lessons
  Learned from an Innovative Approach on an
  Introductory Entrepreneurship Course The Case of
  ESPOL", 2006 Internationalizing Entrepreneurship
  Education Conference, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
• Izquierdo, E., Caicedo, G., Deschoolmeester, D.,
  Lasio, V. "Design and Implementation of an
  Innovative Entrepreneurship Course Looking for
  Perfection or the Right Drive?", 2006 Association
  of European Economics Education Conference,
  Ghent, Belgium.

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Publications presentations

• PUBLICATIONS
• Izquierdo, E. (forthcoming). "An Innovative
  Approach for Teaching Entrepreneurial
  Competencies and its Transferability to Training
  in Organizations. Journal Maanschrift
  Accountancy Bedrijfskunde.
• Izquierdo, E. Buyens, D. (2008). Impact
  Assessment of an Entrepreneurship Course on
  Students Entrepreneurial Competencies A
  Constructivist Perspective . Working paper
  2008/506 , March 2008. faculty of economics
  University of gent.
• Rodríguez, D. Lasio, V.(2007). Educación Formal
  y Empresa Juvenil Contraste de Dos Enfoques 
  para Desarrollar el Espíritu Emprendedor .
  Journal de LACCEI Vol. 1, No. 2
• Lasio, V., Caicedo, G., Arteaga, E. (2005).
  Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Ecuador 2004,
  ESPAE-ESPOL Guayaquil Ecuador
• Edgar Izquierdo, Guido Caicedo y Katherine
  Chiluiza Lessons Learned from an Innovative
  Approach on an Introductory Entrepreneurship
  Course The Case of ESPOL,National Council for
  Graduate Entrepreneurship Working Paper 006/2007,
  disponible online en http//ncge.com/communities/r
  esearch/reference/detail/1071/7

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• Journalistic articles
• Arteaga , E. (2007)Dinamismo empresarial y
  factores de éxito. Revista Gestión No. 161,
  Noviembre 2007 
• Lasio , V. (2007)Promoviendo el espíritu
  empresarial en Ecuador Iniciativas y actores.
  Revista Ekos No. 162, Octubre 2007
• Caicedo, G. (2007) Innovar o morir. Revista
  Industrias Año XIII No. 9, Septiembre 2007
• Caicedo, G. Lasio, V. (2005). Emprendimiento en
  Ecuador Cantidad versus calidad. GESTION, 135,
  Septiembre 2005.
• Lasio, V. (2005). La brecha entre mujeres y
  hombres emprendedores Destruyendo el mito. EKOS,
  137, Septiembre 2005.
• Lasio, V. (2005). Una invitación a crear
  negocios. Revista Comercio, Junio/julio. Cámara
  de Comercio de Guayaquil.

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Publications presentations

• Working papers Serie Entrpepreneurship
• No. 1 a) What Makes the Difference Among
  University Alumni on the IntentionNo. 1 b) The
  Importance of Competencies for EntrepreneurshipN
  o. 2 La Empresa Juvenil como Mecanismo para el
  Desarrollo del            Espíritu Emprendedor
  en Estudiantes de Pre-Grado No. 3 Evaluación
  del Impacto a Corto Plazo de un Curso de
  EmprendimientoNo. 4 Critical Aspects Regarding
  the Start and Operation of            Business
  Incubators No. 5 Entrepreneurial Intentions of
  Undergraduates at ESPOL in Ecuador

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• No. 6 Impacto de los Graduados de ESPOL en la
  Creación de Empresas            Basadas en
  TecnologíaNo. 7 Impacto del Curso de Espíritu
  Empresarial y DesarrolloNo. 8 a) Programa de
  Desarrollo de Emprendedores en ESPOLNo. 8 b)
  Entrepreneurs development program at ESPOL
• No. 9 Casos de Emprendedores en Ecuador

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Course materials developed

• CASES
• HISTORIA DE UN EMPRENDEDOR MINERO
• BYRON ROJAS
• EL DILEMA DE ARMANDO JUNIOR
• GRUPO CONSTRUCTOR
• PARFI S.A.
• INTELWARE
• RICOMANÍ
• SOLUTIONS S.A.
• SEATEC
• LIBRERÍA CERVANTES
• CLÍNICA CRISTO REDENTOR

• VIDEOS
• LOGSESA Entrepreneur Maria Elena Miño, ESPOL
  alumna
• Pikero Entrepreneur Byron Rojas, ESPOL alumnus

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Doctoral scholarships

• EDGAR IZQUIERDO
• APPLIED ECONOMICS
• U GENT
• FACULTY OF ECONOMICS BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
• DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT ORGANISATION
• Advisor Dirk Bueyens
• Co propmotor Dirk Deschoolmeester
• Committee Prof. Mark Buelesn, Prof. Martin
  Valcke, Prof. Herman Van Den Broeck
• DissertationAssessment Method to Evaluate the
  Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on the
  Development of Students Entrepreneurial
  Competencies
• Diss stage data analysis.

• JORGE CARDENAS
• APPLIED BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
• U GENT
• FACULTY OF BIOSCIENCE ENGINEERING
• Advisor Prof. Xavier Gellynck
• Committee Prof. Dirk Deschoolmeester,
• Local promoter Prof. Ramon Espinel
• Dissertation The Effect Of Social Capital And
  Stakeholder Behaviour On Technology Transfer
  Networks The Case Of Banana Agribusiness In
  Ecuador

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Master scholarships

• DENISE RODRIGUEZ
• Master in Operations Technology Management
• U GENT
• FACULTY OF ECONOMICS BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
• DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT ORGANISATION
• Currently tenured professor at Faculty of
  Mechanical Engineering Production Sciences
• Monitoring junior enterprise activities
• Teaching 1 course in entrepreneurship
• Research

• LAZARO SUMBA
• Master in Operations Technology Management
• U GENT
• FACULTY OF ECONOMICS BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
• DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT ORGANISATION
• Starting October 2005.
• Finished June 2006
• Contracted faculty at ICHE.