Cisco Networking Academy is launching a brand new course, Discovering Entrepreneurship. Within the spirit of encouraging and fostering entrepreneurship, right here is how we plan to encourage folks with a enterprise concept to show their dream into actuality in Latin America.
Entrepreneurship: The massive image
Once we speak entrepreneurship, most would consider the tech billionaires we all know as family names. However to take action is to decrease the function that smaller – however nonetheless profitable – entrepreneurs play within the improvement of areas like Latin America.
In line with the Heart for Strategic and Worldwide Research1, “The beginning-up ecosystem in LAC is having a substantial influence within the area, catalyzing a era of innovators to extend competitiveness and financial development.”
It’s encouraging that startups within the area usually handle points similar to monetary inclusion, that promote digitization, or improved healthcare, and local weather options.
In line with the World Financial institution2, 4 of each 10 Latin American youth report a want to turn out to be an entrepreneur.
A much less encouraging report from the Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Growth3 recommended that entrepreneurial exercise within the area is extra related to lack of different employment options for younger folks.
To be truthful, each this stuff might be true. However the demand from schooling establishments for entrepreneurship programs suggests they might be useful in each instances: by encouraging entrepreneurial exercise and the financial development it brings; and by serving to younger folks achieve success of their entrepreneurial exercise.
Creating an entrepreneurial mindset
The entrepreneurial mindset is efficacious to present firms too. One latest research4 argues that entrepreneurs possess execution abilities uniquely suited to taking new concepts to market. These abilities are invaluable past the start-up context and might be deployed by established corporations, significantly to launch new services and products.
Certainly, the entrepreneurial mindset is on the core of Cisco – an organization based by Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner in 1984. The 2 weren’t in a position to electronic mail one another from their respective places of work at Stanford College as a result of they have been on totally different networks with totally different native space protocols. They solved this drawback by inventing the multiprotocol router. And Cisco was born.
What began by merely fixing an issue might have grown into a world company, however the innovation abilities of these founders continues to be inspired and fostered at Cisco.5
Discovering Entrepreneurship
Within the spirit of encouraging and fostering entrepreneurship, Cisco Networking Academy is launching a brand new course, Discovering Entrepreneurship.
This 20-hour course is the primary in a three-part entrepreneurship collection, designed to show the basics of entrepreneurship and develop a solution-oriented strategy to drawback fixing within the office.
The Discovering Entrepreneurship course has no stipulations past a highschool studying degree, primary laptop literacy and web utilization abilities and is accessible in English and Spanish. As such, we encourage anybody with an concept to make use of Discovering Entrepreneurship to get began and start turning their desires into actuality.
Register at this time!
Whether or not you’re an aspiring entrepreneur with the following huge concept, otherwise you wish to sharpen your problem-solving entrepreneurial abilities and enhance your employability, don’t wait!
For Educators
Unique to Cisco Networking Academy Instructors in Latin America
We’re excited to supply Cisco Networking Academy educators in Latin America the chance to show Discovering Entrepreneurship programs and take part in our marketing campaign and prize competitors: Convey Out the Entrepreneur in You / Despierta el espírtu emprendedor en ti.
Educators who enroll the very best variety of pupil contributors can win some nice prizes!
Be part of us in igniting the entrepreneurial spirit throughout Latin America by way of our marketing campaign, “Despierta el espírtu emprendedor en ti” — accessible for a restricted time solely. Begin instructing at this time!
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Sources
1 Heart for Strategic and Worldwide Research – Catalysts of Change: How Entrepreneurs Are Remodeling Latin America
2 World Financial institution – Entrepreneurship is the pattern in Latin America
3 Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Growth (OECD) – OECD/CAF/ECLAC (2016), Latin American Financial Outlook 2017: Youth, Abilities and Entrepreneurship, OECD Publishing, Paris
4 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona – Hiring entrepreneurs for innovation (Economics Working Paper Collection, Division of Economics and Enterprise, Working Paper 1811)
5 Cisco Newsroom – Why this Cisco chief believes each worker can construct our boldest improvements
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