Entrepreneurship: A Challenge in Higher Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reflect on the importance of entrepreneurship in the training of university students, based on the fact that entrepreneurship is one of the factors that generate economic, social and cultural development in the regions; In addition to this, it is a propulsive representation of knowledge and innovation in the different areas of knowledge. The absence of entrepreneurship in a region could become a limitation in the progress of the people, therefore, it is necessary that the entrepreneurial culture be motivated in the classrooms and in the academic programs, so that, in this way, take advantage of what the medium offers, especially efficiency in the world of work is achieved and that, in addition, the market and the technological resources that are imposed in the globalizing world, are used to the maximum so that in this way sources are generated of employment and at the same time be in tune with what the labor market demands of the professionals of the 21st century. The study offers a documentary review on the subject so that, from this, proposals are generated that lead to strengthening the curricula of academic programs.