Emprendedores en Química, ¿alternativa o necesidad?

Abstract

Venezuela entrepreneurship activity has been under a systematic study since 2003, and for 2005 the earlystage entrepreneurial activity was the highest in the world. Most of this entrepreneurial activity is related to business services and consumer services, since Venezuelan entrepreneur are expecting immediately results. However, most of this entrepreneurial activity is not carried out by people with university degree. In an attempt to encourage chemistry (undergraduate and graduated) students to get involve with entrepreneurial culture a brief description of concepts, characteristic and activities related with this topic is presented. Some opportunities based in local resources are described.

Keywords

• Entrepreneurship
• entrepreneur
• small bussines
• innovation