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 large image
After we discuss entrepreneurship, most would consider the tech billionaires we all know as family names. However to take action is to decrease the position that smaller – however nonetheless profitable – entrepreneurs play within the growth of areas like Latin America.
In response to the Heart for Strategic and Worldwide Research1, “The start-up ecosystem in LAC is having a considerable impact in the region, catalyzing a generation of innovators to increase competitiveness and economic growth.”
It’s encouraging that startups within the area typically handle points comparable to monetary inclusion, that promote digitization, or improved healthcare, and local weather options.
In response to the World Financial institution2, 4 of each 10 Latin American youth report a need to turn into an entrepreneur.
A much less encouraging report from the Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Growth3 instructed that entrepreneurial exercise within the area is extra related to lack of different employment options for younger folks.
To be truthful, each these items might be true. However the demand from schooling establishments for entrepreneurship programs suggests they might be useful in each circumstances: by encouraging entrepreneurial exercise and the financial development it brings; and by serving to younger folks achieve success of their entrepreneurial exercise.
Growing an entrepreneurial mindset
The entrepreneurial mindset is efficacious to current corporations too. One current research4 argues that entrepreneurs possess execution expertise uniquely suited to taking new concepts to market. These expertise are helpful past the start-up context and might be deployed by established companies, notably 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 capable of e-mail one another from their respective places of work at Stanford College as a result of they have been on completely different networks with completely different native space protocols. They solved this downside by inventing the multiprotocol router. And Cisco was born.
What began by merely fixing an issue might have grown into a worldwide company, however the innovation expertise 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 downside fixing within the office.
The Discovering Entrepreneurship course has no stipulations past a highschool studying degree, primary laptop literacy and web utilization expertise and is offered 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 subsequent massive concept, otherwise you need to sharpen your problem-solving entrepreneurial expertise 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: Carry Out the Entrepreneur in You / Despierta el espírtu emprendedor en ti.
Educators who enroll the very best variety of pupil individuals can win some nice prizes!
Be part of us in igniting the entrepreneurial spirit throughout Latin America via 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 Reworking 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 Sequence, 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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