If there is no research there is no progress and the world could be paralyzed, which would mean no development; technologies or medical science would not progress and in some way this would affect the economy of the countries.
But in addition to scientific developments of great value, universities in much of the world have also been concerned about training for entrepreneurship, not only because of the impact that business creation has on the economic development of societies, but also because of the fact that that the probability that a professional will find a real and competitive job option is less and less.
An analysis carried out by the OECD in 2017 revealed that one in four Latin Americans is between 15 and 29 years old, and that two out of 10 of them “work” in the informal sector, and the rest neither work nor study nor receive any type of support. training. The situation worsened with the pandemic due to the economic slowdown and the closure of many companies that could not withstand the confinement.
However, it should be remembered that in August 2015 the Colombian Entrepreneurship research group conducted research with undergraduate students, in order to learn about the contribution that higher education makes to the process of becoming an entrepreneur.
As a result, it was evidenced that entrepreneurship training processes develop attitudes, arouse interest and offer useful knowledge for the development of the entrepreneurial potential of young people, for which the team considered that its development in higher education institutions was important.
Another of the derivations of said study was that students who have contact with programs for the formation of competencies and the strengthening of the entrepreneurial spirit have greater opportunities to undertake.
Dieter Holtz, President in Mexico of a private capital company that provides higher education services expressed for Expansion what “The role of higher education to strengthen the development of skills and promote entrepreneurship among its students is essential. Universities are an indispensable link so that the ideas generated in the classroom can be transferred to the commercial field.”
And precisely, university research is not only for consumption in the university, especially when its objective is related to the solution to great problems of humanity. A product or service emanating from a higher education institution also has a commercial value that benefits both the author(s) and the institution itself.
The commercialization of research is carried out through a process called Technology Transfer through which companies or organizations are responsible for transferring knowledge, technology and skills among themselves for a better development and production of goods and services, in order to generate technological intelligence to organizations that lack resources to improve inside and outside the company.
Technology transfer adds value to the product or service, and at the same time generates competition between organizations that have financial resources to invest in scientific and technological research, so as not to lose market.
While some scientists continue to publish their research in famous journals to obtain more grants and continue their research, there are others who see the results of their work or a possible new product or service for the good of society. That’s when they turn to technology transfer.