Entrepreneurship in Latin America

Perspectives on Education and Innovation

Scott Tiffin

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2004
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780313057601
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Entrepreneurship drives growth in any economy. It is about combining people with good ideas, vision, and courage, who risk their own capital—and their investors'—to develop new products and services. It is about innovation, technology development, and wealth creation. As a field of research and education, it is relatively new, and in the case of Latin America, it is full of promise. Studies undertaken by Babson College, one of the world's premier centers of entrepreneurship, show that Latin America is a hotbed of new business creation, but largely without the educational or institutional infrastructure to support it. This volume, the first of its kind, documents the initial state of the art in Latin American entrepreneurship—in practice, research, and education.

This volume, the first of its kind, documents the initial state of the art in Latin American entrepreneurship—in practice, research, and education. Featuring contributions from local experts, the book explores a wide range of issues, including startups, venture capital and angel financing, technology incubators, family businesses, and management and gender issues, against the backdrop of innovations in education and government policies designed to develop entrepreneurial skills and promote economic growth through new business creation.

Table of contents

• Foreword Dr. Iván Sanabria Piretti
• 1 INTRODUCTION Scott Tiffin
• 2 THE INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AND THE PROMOTION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: LESSONS LEARNED AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NEW PROGRAMS Pablo Javier Angelelli and Juan José Llisterri
• 3 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT: VENEZUELA CASE STUDY Jeannine Horowitz Gassol
• 4 GLOBALIZATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND ENTREPRENEURIAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS IN LATIN AMERICA Dennis M. Ray
• 5 THE EFFECT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITIES OF CALI Dr. Rodrigo Varela and Jorge Enrique Jiménez Prieto
• 6 INCUBATING INNOVATIVE START-UPS: SOME LESSONS FOR CHILE Germán Echecopar
• 7 INCEPTION CHARACTERISTICS OF COMPANIES THROUGH THE NATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONTEST Ricardo Aguilar Diaz and Juan Carlos Leiva
• 8 TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN CHILE: THE UDD CASE Pedro Arriagada Stuven
• 9 EDUCATING ENTREPRENEURS Edward G. Cale, Jr.
• 10 THE APPLICATION OF PROJECT-ORIENTED LEARNING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT IN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: THE CASE OF ITESM IN MEXICO Alexandra Solano, Angélica Mora, and Pedro Márquez
• 11 PROMOTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THE SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCE OF THE UNIVERSIDAD DEL PACÍFICO, PERU Sergey Udolkin Dakova, Adriana Paredes, and Veronica Pardo
• 12 PROSPECTS FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ONLINE: A FOCUS ON LATIN AMERICA John R. Bourne
• 13 INDEX FOR CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED FIRMS Gonzalo Jiménez and Scott Tiffin
• 14 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION IN BRAZILIAN INCUBATORS José Dornelas and Scott Tiffin
• 15 THE FAMILY BUSINESS IN CHILE AND MEXICO: ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE AS ANTECEDENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION Imanol Belausteguigoitia and Soledad Portilla
• 16 VENTURE CAPITAL IN CHILE: FLYING ANGELS…LINGERING FUNDS Alicia Castillo Holley
• 17 A NOTE ON VENTURE CAPITAL IN BRAZIL Antonio José J. Botelho, Gustavo Harckbart, Julian E. Lange, and José Antonio Pimenta Bueno
• 18 WOMEN IN BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN CHILE Judy “JJ” Jackson and Olga Pizarro
• 19 WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN HIGH-TECH FIRMS IN BRAZIL Eva G. Jonathan
• Index
• About the Contributors