JORNADAS EMPRENDEDORAS: GENERANDO ESPACIOS PARA IDEAS EMPRENDEDORAS DE LA POBLACIÓN ESTUDIANTIL DE UNED

Abstract

"Entrepreneurs Journals” is the development of activities that help creating an environment that facilitates entrepreneurship in the students of Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED). Thus, the effort of the students' academic work is taken advantage of, and is focused as a potential solution to unemployment in certain areas of the country; this kind of initiatives might generate employment. In this first academic experience during the first term of 2016, students from different University Sites and careers of the School of Management Sciences were incorporated. In the eleven projects there is evidence of collaborative working among the students, relying on their learning about pre-feasibility studies and, the most important part, being multidisciplinary. It shows a proposal of university-company association, where the students’ interest is to innovate and generate business ideas. The experience of the"Jornadas Emprendedoras" project shows the importance of extending its research instruments to the entire student population at UNED: Final Graduation Projects, Research and Extension Committee, and even other careers.