Young people gain first place in entrepreneurial methodology
Economists from Cañarense and Cuenca research entrepreneurial reality by productive sectors.
Three young people won the first place in the category "Methodologies in Entrepreneurship: Measurement of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Productive Sectors and their Influence on Employment", during an international meeting in the city of Veracruz, Mexico.
The meeting structured in three parallel meetings was: VI International Congress of Entrepreneurship, Challenges and Opportunities for an Entrepreneurial Culture and the IX International Summer School of Entrepreneurship (ISSE).
The organization was the responsibility of the Association for Training, Research and Development of Entrepreneurship (AFIDE), in partnership with the Universidad Veracruzana and the Chair of Entrepreneurs of the University of Salamanca (CEUSAL).
Economistas
The winners were: Adrián Siguencia Muñoz, of 23 years of age, born in the province of Cañar; and, the Cuencans Ramón Valdivieso Vásquez, of 25 years, and José Vera Reino, of 38.
Adrián is an economist from the Universidad del Azuay (UDA) with a Mention in Business Economics, the best Graduate; and, today he is studying sixth law cycle at the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL).
Ramón is an economist from the UDA, he is on the list of the best students; and today he works for a business group in real estate.
José is a professor and economist, has two Masters, one in Business Administration and Marketing and another in Business Management.
With the new regulations of the Education Law now we work in different ways, before the students proposed general topics, to do their thesis, what still happens; But what we are trying to do now is that the professors generate topics for them to be investigated, explains José Vera, arguing how the initiative to participate in this call arose.
Then, more than a year ago, Vera proposed to do an entrepreneurial research to measure its characteristics.
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Adrián says that at the beginning it was part of his project of pre-professional practices to establish a monitoring of what is the performance of the entrepreneurial activity in Cuenca.
Once the first approaches were made, they went to databases and primary and secondary information sources, they realized that "there was no formal and relevant study exclusively for this topic in Cuenca".
Siguencia admits that they did find several studies of some success stories, "but one with established methodology and conclusive results did not exist for Cuenca, yes for the country as such".
With that motivation, they decided to establish a methodology that fits the city to see parameters and measure entrepreneurial activity.
Ramón indicates that they measured in what sectors they undertake and innovates more, to understand the reasons.
With cut to the year 2017, they discovered that in Cuenca there are five sectors where more is undertaken, of a total of 30 that they analyzed.
They are: activities of unconventional services such as hairdressing for dogs, repair of household goods, decoration, maintenance of gardens and others.
The second sector: professional or scientific consultancy activities; the third: elaboration of food products such as compotes, jams, certain processes for French fries, etc.
The fourth: manufacture of textile products and clothing; and, the fifth one is programming, consulting, information technology and the development of technological software.
And a sector that has had a fairly progressive growth is tourism and services.
Siguencia considers that, in order for information to be more relevant and more useful for the use of the public and private sectors, a contrast must be established with time, how it is evolving and which sectors are growing and which are not.
In part of the research, Ramón observed that the way of financing of several entrepreneurs is with their own resources, and there are also some success stories with the search to sell the idea to investors, although it is not traditional in Cuenca.