"What is sought when innovating is to preserve ourselves"
On June 4, the talk organized by the Faculty of Science and Technology on social entrepreneurship was held called: What is innovated when it is innovated.
The event was part of a set of conferences on innovation and entrepreneurship coordinated by the Faculty with the aim of creating spaces to share valuable content that, according to Andrés López, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, "contributes to the training of our professionals and society in general.
The guest on this occasion was Héctor Jorquera, social entrepreneur and co-founder of Araucanía Hub, a worker cooperative in Chile that promotes collaboration as a strategy to boost entrepreneurship, the economy and social innovation.
During the conference, Jorquera pointed out that innovation is "the emergence of the new as the result of bringing together the aspirations of the future and the experiences of the past in the present." Therefore, he noted that, "an innovation is never completely new."
Innovating, for the exhibitor, "is the emergence of the new as a historical accumulation of horizons and practices", from which four fundamental notions emerge: listening, undertaking, breaking paradigms, and the practical networks and available equipment.
Thus, entrepreneurs listen to the concerns of society to transform them through entrepreneurship, and during this process paradigms are broken from a network of practices and available equipment.
On the other hand, Jorquera commented that, the reason why innovation has gained relevance worldwide is the danger of our survival, because "what is sought when innovating is to preserve ourselves" that is, to maintain what is fundamental for the human beings, for coexistence and for life in society in a sustainable way.
Therefore, to conclude, the speaker suggested that the efforts made in the area of innovation should be developed within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The exhibitor closed his talk by highlighting once again the importance of innovation to create a new horizon: "Jobs are being destroyed because most professions and trades are yet to be invented."
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