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| Titel |
Designing an accompanying ecosystem for entrepreneurship students of agronomic and forestry engineering. Opinion and commitment of the faculty |
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Leovigilda Ortiz, Elvira Fernández-Ahumada, Pablo Lara-Vélez, Encarnación V. Taguas, Rosa Gallardo-Cobos, M. Carmen Campillo, José E. Guerrero-Ginel |
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EGU General Assembly 2014
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Artikel
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Englisch
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PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 16 (2014) |
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250096938
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2014-12474.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The current context has called attention to the need of training engineers with new skills beyond the purely technical. Among others, fostering the entrepreneurial spirit has gained special prominence.
In the Higher School of Agronomic and Forestry Engineering of the University of Cordoba, a 12-year-experience of an entrepreneurship program for undergraduate students concluded that, for an adequate consolidation and evolution of the program, is important to establish a robust network with active participation of all actors involved.
With this antecedent, a collective project conceived as an “ecosystem of support and accompaniment for entrepreneurs” is the approach proposed. The objective is to perform an evaluation of this model in terms of viability, usefulness, actions to be taken and degree of commitment. The key actors identified (undergraduate students, faculty, alumni, local and regional entrepreneurs, enterprises, public administration) have been involved in the evaluation process.
This study focuses on the academic staff. For that aim, a survey to the entire faculty (N=128, response rate = 45%) and semi-structured interviews to 20 members have been performed. Data have been treated by means of univariate and multivariate analysis.
Results suggest that there exists an agreement concerning the appropriateness of a collective project; there is a critical mass of teachers willing to be engaged; guidelines need to be incorporated in order to facilitate taking on tasks; main restrictions concern the existing asymmetry between formal requirements and those necessary for establishing the ecosystem.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: This research work has been developed in the framework of the ALFA III programme financed by the European Union. |
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