Integral Science, Technology, Innovation, and Intercultural Community Entrepreneurship Program: a proposal from the experience of URACCAN, Las Minas Campus

Abstract

This is a systematization of good practices in innovation and entrepreneurship in intercultural community higher education contexts. Its objective is to identify actions of high educational value in the definition of guidelines for an Integral Program of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. For this purpose, methods and techniques were designed, based on the open innovation model and challenge-based learning. As a result of the implementation of integral actions in the management and application of knowledge, the Open Innovation Season, a holistic methodology that iteratively combines teaching, research, extension, and management, was identified as a good practice. Based on this experience, five components were designed, focusing their attention on managing and promoting the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship with an intercultural gender perspective in the university community, in a multi, inter, and transdisciplinary approach, in terms of its community, territorial and multi-sectorial projection with the transversalization of the values and principles of the University. The program is a complementary and homologated proposal with different instances and the institutional planning framework to effectively contribute to national and regional policies and programs that promote the creative and community economy.