Discovering Entrepreneurship with Cisco Networking Academy

Cisco Networking Academy is launching a brand new course, Discovering Entrepreneurship. Within the spirit of encouraging and fostering entrepreneurship, right here is how we plan to encourage individuals with a enterprise concept to show their dream into actuality in Latin America.

Entrepreneurship: The large image

After we discuss entrepreneurship, most would consider the tech billionaires we all know as family names. However to take action is to decrease the position that smaller – however nonetheless profitable – entrepreneurs play within the growth of areas like Latin America.

In response to the Middle for Strategic and Worldwide Research¹, “The beginning-up ecosystem in LAC is having a substantial influence within the area, catalyzing a technology of innovators to extend competitiveness and financial development.”

It’s encouraging that startups within the area usually handle points reminiscent of monetary inclusion, that promote digitization, or improved healthcare, and local weather options.

In response to the World Financial institution², 4 of each 10 Latin American youth report a need to turn out to be an entrepreneur.

A much less encouraging report from the Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Improvement³ urged that entrepreneurial exercise within the area is extra related to lack of different employment alternate options for younger individuals.

To be truthful, each this stuff could be true. However the demand from schooling establishments for entrepreneurship programs suggests they could be useful in each circumstances: by encouraging entrepreneurial exercise and the financial development it brings; and by serving to younger individuals achieve success of their entrepreneurial exercise.

Creating an entrepreneurial mindset

The entrepreneurial mindset is effective to present corporations too. One latest examine⁴ argues that entrepreneurs possess execution expertise uniquely fitted to taking new concepts to market. These expertise are beneficial past the start-up context and could be deployed by established corporations, significantly to launch new services.

Certainly, the entrepreneurial mindset is on the core of Cisco – an organization based by Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner in 1984. The 2 weren’t in a position to electronic mail one another from their respective workplaces at Stanford College as a result of they had been on totally different networks with totally different native space protocols. They solved this downside by inventing the multiprotocol router. And Cisco was born.

What began by merely fixing an issue might have grown into a world company, however the innovation expertise of these founders continues to be inspired and fostered at Cisco.⁵

Discovering Entrepreneurship

Within the spirit of encouraging and fostering entrepreneurship, Cisco Networking Academy is launching a brand new course, Discovering Entrepreneurship.

This 20-hour course is the primary in a three-part entrepreneurship collection, designed to show the basics of entrepreneurship and develop a solution-oriented method to downside fixing within the office.

The Discovering Entrepreneurship course has no conditions past a highschool studying degree, primary laptop literacy and web utilization expertise and is out there in English and Spanish. As such, we encourage anybody with an concept to make use of Discovering Entrepreneurship to get began and start turning their desires into actuality.

Register at the moment!

Whether or not you’re an aspiring entrepreneur with the subsequent large concept, otherwise you wish to sharpen your problem-solving entrepreneurial expertise and enhance your employability, don’t wait!

For Educators

Unique to Cisco Networking Academy Instructors in Latin America

We’re excited to supply Cisco Networking Academy educators in Latin America the chance to show Discovering Entrepreneurship programs and take part in our marketing campaign and prize competitors:  Deliver Out the Entrepreneur in You / Despierta el espírtu emprendedor en ti.

Educators who enroll the very best variety of pupil individuals can win some nice prizes!

Be a part of us in igniting the entrepreneurial spirit throughout Latin America by way of our marketing campaign, “Despierta el espírtu emprendedor en ti” — obtainable for a restricted time solely. Begin instructing at the moment!

Wish to be part of 29,000+ educators around the globe? Educate with us at
Cisco Networking Academy for Educators.

Sources

¹  Middle for Strategic and Worldwide Research – Catalysts of Change: How Entrepreneurs Are Reworking Latin America

²  World Financial institution – Entrepreneurship is the development in Latin America

³  Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Improvement (OECD) – OECD/CAF/ECLAC (2016), Latin American Financial Outlook 2017: Youth, Expertise and Entrepreneurship, OECD Publishing, Paris 

⁴  Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona – Hiring entrepreneurs for innovation (Economics Working Paper Collection, Division of Economics and Enterprise, Working Paper 1811)

⁵  Cisco Newsroom – Why this Cisco chief believes each worker can construct our boldest improvements

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