A Study of Student Knowledge and Participation in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem

The University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) has always been involved in initiatives that spark students' creativity and critical thinking. Hence, this research describes the level of student's knowledge and experience in entrepreneurship and innovation along with their participation i...

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Published inIISE Annual Conference. Proceedings pp. 1130 - 1135
Main Authors Rivera, Yerlianne, Rodríguez, Génesis G, Espada, Karem N, Medina, Lourdes A, García, Alejandro, De Hoyos, Moraima
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Norcross Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) 01.01.2021
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Agricultural engineering
Business administration
Colleges & universities
Creativity
Critical thinking
Economic development
Education
Engineering
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship education
Extracurricular activities
Gender
Human capital
Innovations
Knowledge
Literature reviews
Questionnaires
Questions
Statistical analysis
Students
Puerto Rico
United States > US
Silicon Valley-California
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Summary:The University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) has always been involved in initiatives that spark students' creativity and critical thinking. Hence, this research describes the level of student's knowledge and experience in entrepreneurship and innovation along with their participation in UPRM related activities. The objective of this research is to perform a statistical analysis of the data to examine the association between gender, college year, or faculty and the level of student's knowledge and experience in entrepreneurship and innovation activities. Thus, two online assessments were developed to measure the interest, knowledge, participation, UPRM influence, limitations, and advantages in the UPRM students. The first questionnaire consisted of fourteen questions and a total of 256 students from UPRM answered. On the other hand, the second one consisted of thirteen questions and a total of 239 students answered. A statistical analysis with Ordinal Logistic Regression was carried out to study the influence of different factors in student's knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) with four predictors: gender, year of study, area of study and the fact of having taken a course with I&E components. The analysis by areas of study included Engineering, Business Administration, Arts, Science and Agricultural Science.