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This paper presents a characterization of the entrepreneurial intention of university students in the city of Medellin. It is based on a quantitative methodological design from a self-administered questionnaire that was applied and validated to 879 students. This questionnaire collected data about the main factors reported in the Systemic Entrepreneurship Intention Model. Factors or components that describe behavior patterns when undertaking a new company were identified through a principal component and cluster analysis. The results identify two factors that explain most of the data variance: the first one is the perceived viability by students to carry out processes of new companies, and the second one is the convenience factor that brings the creation a company. Furthermore, three groups or clusters of students with common characteristics in their entrepreneurial intention were identified. First, the “entrepreneurs” are characterized by having a positive attitude and aptitude regarding entrepreneurship. The second group is “neutral” and they are subjects partially affected or indifferent about wanting to start a new company. Finally, the group of “non-entrepreneurs” is composed of individuals who showed behavior of apathy towards entrepreneurship.

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The current opportunities to develop and acquire knowledge in the network, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) play a major role in the learning process. This research offers a bibliometric analysis in order to examine the state of the research activity carried out in relation to the learning communities based on ICT. The indicators obtained show steady growth since the study of ICT applied to models of teaching and learning began in the nineties, presenting a significant increase in interest on the subject in the year 2005 and the highest productivity of publications in the years 2010 and 2011. The countries with the largest contribution to the study of ICT in learning contexts are China, the US and Taiwan, leading research processes in the area. It was possible to identify that some of the issues that have emergent behavior are related to knowledge sharing, confidence-building mechanisms and networked learning.

This paper aims to analyze a measurement tool allowing the identification of the differences that may exist between the factors and their relationships that affect the entrepreneurial intention of undergraduate students from related and non-business-related programs. This is to know what elements motivate to create a company for each group, and their degree of association, in order to design more effective educational strategies focused on their motivations. For this, a model was proposed, which was validated through the application of a self-administered questionnaire to undergraduate students of different careers, in Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano (Medellín). It was found that personal attitudes have a stronger relationship with entrepreneurial intention in students of business-related programs, while perceived viability, perceived convenience, and entrepreneurial behavior have greater weight in students from non-affiliated programs. Thus, the courses focused on creativity in the first group, and the courses focused on the know-how in the second group would be more efficient in increasing the entrepreneurial intention.

Perceptions on the use of new technologies among highe education students in Medellin AbstractIntroduction. Online education has grown exponentially in recent years worldwide, and Colombia has not been an exception. Objective. Describe the perceptions of students about the factors that affect the acceptance of online learning tools in Medellín. Materials and methods. A quantitative design by the use of self-managed questionnaires for 1032 students was used. Results. New information and communications technologies, faster transactions and exchanges and many other conditions have affected massification and flexibility strategies in some higher education institutions. Conclusions. The conclusion was that, even though online platforms help students feel more efficient in their learning processes, there are still many challenges to be faced concerning the implementation of new technologies as strategies to mediate in the teaching-learning process.

Introducción. El emprendimiento es crucial en la educación superior, promueve la generación de empleo y el crecimiento de la economía. Objetivo. Explorar los factores que motivan a los estudiantes universitarios a crear empresa, a partir de los factores identificados en la Teoría del Comportamiento Planificado y el Modelo de Intención Emprendedora. Materiales y métodos. Se aplicó en tres grupos focales de tres instituciones de educación superior de Medellín una técnica de recolección de información mediante una entrevista grupal semiestructurada, giró alrededor de una temática propuesta por los investigadores, es un espacio de opinión donde se plantearon preguntas alrededor de siete factores: la intención emprendedora, el comportamiento emprendedor, las experiencias positivas pasadas (en emprender una empresa), norma subjetiva, la tolerancia al riesgo, la conveniencia y viabilidad percibida del negocio. Resultados. Se encontró que las unidades de emprendimiento de las universidades son fundamentales para el emprendimiento de los estudiantes, les brindan apoyo económicos, administrativos y de tipo motivacional. Conclusiones. Las fallas en los procesos de emprendimiento de los estudiantes pueden no estar relacionadas con falencias en el sistema educativo, sino con dos eventos claves: el poco interés que existía por los temas de emprendimiento durante su estancia en las instituciones de educación y posteriormente, una motivación por emprender asociada a situaciones de desempleo.

La Gestión de la Tecnología y la Innovación (GTI) en el sector defensa permite a las instituciones militares estar a la vanguardia para alcanzar sus objetivos estratégicos. El objetivo de este artículo es realizar un análisis de la actividad científica en la temática GTI en el sector defensa, que evidencie información relevante en torno a la temática, a partir de la búsqueda y análisis en una de las bases de datos más importante de literatura científica, en el ámbito mundial. La metodología utilizada fue un análisis bibliométrico, complementado con análisis de redes, que permitió conocer comunidades científicas, autores, países, tendencias e interés por los procesos de gestión tecnológica e innovación en el sector defensa. Algunos hallazgos importantes indican que este es un campo fuerte en investigación y que aún se encuentra en crecimiento, además fue posible evidenciar la influencia científica de países como Reino Unido, Estados Unidos y Alemania. Cabe resaltar que como campos nacientes de interés en el estudio de la GTI en el sector defensa, se identificaron la inversión en GTI, los sistemas de información, el emprendimiento y desarrollo tecnológico; estos campos se relacionan con las nuevas aplicaciones de la innovación en el sector defensa.