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
After we speak 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 improvement of areas like Latin America.
In line with the Middle for Strategic and Worldwide Research1, “The beginning-up ecosystem in LAC is having a substantial influence within the area, catalyzing a technology of innovators to extend competitiveness and financial development.”
It’s encouraging that startups within the area usually handle points comparable 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 need to turn into an entrepreneur.
A much less encouraging report from the Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Improvement3 advised that entrepreneurial exercise within the area is extra related to lack of different employment options for younger folks.
To be honest, each this stuff could be true. However the demand from training 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.
Creating an entrepreneurial mindset
The entrepreneurial mindset is effective to current firms too. One latest examine4 argues that entrepreneurs possess execution abilities uniquely fitted to taking new concepts to market. These abilities are worthwhile past the start-up context and could be deployed by established corporations, 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 in a position to e mail one another from their respective workplaces at Stanford College as a result of they have been on completely different networks with completely different native space protocols. They solved this drawback by inventing the multiprotocol router. And Cisco was born.
What began by merely fixing an issue could 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 sequence, designed to show the basics of entrepreneurship and develop a solution-oriented method to drawback fixing within the office.
The Discovering Entrepreneurship course has no conditions past a highschool studying degree, primary laptop literacy and web utilization abilities and is out there 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 goals 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 scholar members can win some nice prizes!
Be a part of us in igniting the entrepreneurial spirit throughout Latin America by way of our marketing campaign, “Despierta el espírtu emprendedor en ti” — obtainable for a restricted time solely. Begin educating at this time!
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Sources
1 Middle 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 Improvement (OECD) – OECD/CAF/ECLAC (2016), Latin American Financial Outlook 2017: Youth, Expertise 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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