Entrepreneurship in the students of the Panama school in the city of Cuenca-Ecuador

Abstract

The objective of this article is to determine entrepreneurial competencies, the image they have about entrepreneurs and the people who influence the decisions and actions of the ninth that the ninth and tenth year students of the Panama School in the city of Cuenca- Ecuador have to be entrepreneurs in the future. The theoretical bases were founded from the perspective of Cordón, et al (1999), Redine (Ed.) (2018), De Jesús (2013), Olarte (2015), Rodríguez y Gómez (2014), Alcaráz (2011), Marulanda, et al (2009), Herrera y Montoya (2013), Bassat (2017), Hernández, et al (2015), Sánchez (2010), Ortíz y Millán (2011), Santamaría, et al (2013) and Ayala (2007). Descriptive research was used, the study employs a non-experimental and cross-sectional design, the population of the field is made up of 79 students, for the collection of information, and a data collection questionnaire was applied appropriate to the objective of the research. It is conclude that the competencies that prevail in students refer to the willingness to take risks, teamwork that is within the capacity of communication, vision of the future in the sense of predisposition to propose new ways of doing things. However, creativity is not strength. The entrepreneur who most influences their actions and decisions is their mother, as they define the entrepreneur as an honest person who earns a lot of money, which in large percentage motivates them to have their own business in the future.