US ASSOCIATION FOR SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Global Entrepreneurship Education Award
CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
UNIVERSIDAD ICESI
Cali - Colombia
MISSION & PURPOSE
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Founded January 1st 1985
University Objectives
President’s Dependency
Full University Coverage
TEACHING OBJECTIVES
 To outline the importance of the Entrepreneurial
Spirit, in the socio-economical development
 To identify, reinforce and develop the cultural
components and the own values of the
Entrepreneurial Spirit
 To attenuate and/or eliminate the myths and
traditions that prevents the entrepreneurial career
from being considered as a dignified and viable
process, for its personal and professional
development
 To know the stages and components of the process
of new business creation
TEACHING OBJECTIVES
 To know the mechanisms and key concepts for the
establishment and management of a successful
enterprise.
 To approach the students to the real world of
business
 To develop a positive attitude towards
entrepreneurial innovation, whether as a personal
activity or as a professional function
 To orient the educational processes, under the
concept of entrepreneurial education
 To facilitate the creative-innovative process, for the
development of an entrepreneurial culture filled
with creativity and social responsibility
MAIN CONTRIBUTION TO
CURRICULA
 First university in Latin America to integrate
entrepreneurship as one the main university values
 First university in Latin America to built a Center for
Entrepreneurship Development
 Entrepreneurial competences as one of the six basic
objectives of the Business Program
 Five required courses in the Business Administration
Program
 Two required courses in the Interactive Media Design.
 One required course in the: Economic & International
Business, System Engineering, Telematic Engineering,
Industrial Engineering, Industrial Design, Chemistry,
Biology, Chemical Pharmaceutics Programs
MAIN CONTRIBUTION TO
CURRICULA
 One required course in the Master of Business
Administration
 Elective course in: Accountancy and International
Finance, International Marketing and Advertising,
Medicine`s program
 Possibility of required courses in: Sociology,
Psychology, Political Sciences, Anthropology and
Law Programs
 Electives courses for all the programs.
 Extracurricular seminars “Entrepreneurship for
university student’s”
MAIN CONTRIBUTION TO
CURRICULA
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EXPOICESI
Start - UpCafé
Latin American Congress on Entrepreneurship
Internship in Entrepreneurship and in Family
Business
 Degree project in entrepreneurship
 Opportunity to develop final course projects in
SME’s
2009-2
2009-1
2008-2
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NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN
ENTREPRENEURSHIP COURSES
800
600
400
200
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP COURSES
30
25
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10
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UNIQNESS
 Educational model based on entrepreneurial
competences
 Active learning as pedagogy
 “Competencia Empresarial “as hands -on learning
 First Latin American University to introduce ICT in
the entrepreneurship courses (Web CT, Moodle)
 Business Plan Software
 First textbook in Spanish on Entrepreneurship
(1991): Innovación Empresarial: Arte y Ciencia en
la Creación de Empresa (Third Edition)
UNIQNESS
 First text book in Spanish on Entrepreneurship for
High School: Crear Empresa Misión de Todos
 Latin American Congress on Entrepreneurship
 Summer Camp on Entrepreneurship
 First textbook in Spanish on Women
Entrepreneurship ”Soy Mujer….. y Empresaria”
 Latin American representation in UNDP-ILO
Project “Entrepreneurship Worldwide”.
 Outdoor training
RECOGNITIONS
 White L. Wilford Fellow , 2009
 IC2 Fellow ( University of Texas-Austin)
 Best Doctoral Research in Family Business
( Universidad de Monterrey),2009
 Best National Professor in Engineering & Business
(1997)
 Selected by National Institute for Research
advancement (NIRA) of Japan as one of the best think
tank in Latin America
 Select by USA`s Think Thank Societies as one of the
best think tank in Latin America ,2007
 Selected by IDB for the research “El Nuevo Rostro
Empresarial”
RECOGNITIONS
 Selected by IDB to develop the project “Red
PyME”
 Selected by IDB to transfer our educational
model to the “Jóvenes con Empresa” project
 Member of the Colombian Committee for the
Colombia National Policy for the development of
entrepreneurship
 Selected by the International Investment
Corporation to carry on the FINPYME Project.
 Selected by PROEXPORT to execute the projects
“EXPOPYME”, “Exporting Networks”, “Sectorial
Networks”.
RECOGNITIONS
 Selected by BANCOLDEX to design and execute
the program “Aprogresar”, “New Business
Developments”, “Microenterprise Management”
 Selected by GERA to carry on the Global
Entrepreneurship Monitor on Colombia (GEM)
 Selected by COLCIENCIAS to evaluate the
Business Plan of the FINBATEC Project
 Selected by SENA as “Centro de Apoyo al
Emprendimiento”
 “Premio a la Cultura Empresarial” in category
authors, (2007).
QUALITY & EFFECTIVENESS
 35% of our alumni ,graduated from 1984 to 1999,
did became entrepreneurs
 97% of our actual students had in their minds the
intention to become entrepreneurs
 More than 150 students (our total student body
is 4000) are actually in the Start-up Café
 Winners of National Business Plan Contests
QUALITY & EFFECTIVENESS
 Finalist of Intenational Busines Plan Contests
 In the best 15 young entrepreneurs of Colombian
the last 15 year, 3 were ICESI’s alumni
 Many universities in Latin America are using our
educational model
 Many professor in Latin America has been
trained in our methodology
 Our text book is used in most of Latin America
universities
OTHER ACTIVITIES
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Research Activities
Outreach Activities
Service Activities
Difussion Activities
Support to Incubators
TRANSFERABILITY
 University Professor’s training (Colombia, Chile,
Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panamá, México,
Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, República
Dominicana, Puerto Rico)
 Latin American Congress on Entrepreneurship
(Colombia, Chile, Perú, Brazil, Panamá, Puerto
Rico, Costa Rica, México)
 High School teacher’s training (Colombia, Perú,
Honduras, República Dominicana)
NEW DEVELOPMENT
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Start SBDC model in Colombia
Execute FINPYME
Design New Courses
Improve Entrepreneurial Competences Evaluation