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The I&E ecosystem in PR is a very broad topic. The innovation and entrepreneurship topic is very broad cause they have a lot of organizations, different components, I usually tend to customize towards the area, for example in PR we have a different ecosystem than in Mexico or any other country, because we’re an island, we have different characteristics, different culture, different talents, it’s a whole different industry. Because ecosystems have many components and they are broad, I think the best way I have in order to know what an ecosystem is that I like to think about it as in individuals, as in I am an entrepreneur, what resources I need as an entrepreneur to grow a business, for example, let’s say that we want to create the competitor of a multi-millionaire company here in PR, like Google or Facebook or something equivalent, cause there’s not going to be a next Google or Facebook, there’s going to be something new, unheard off, but let’s say that we want to create that company here in PR, we have to reverse engineer, what resources we need to have to reach its maximum potential, some examples as seed capitals, programmers, that I think there are not enough programmers in this world, organizations that support entrepreneurship, community events, co-working spaces, a lot of different components, and of course universities, and there is when the UIF’s come in. Universities are an essential part of the ecosystem because they produce the talents that the ecosystem needs in order to thrive. Like I said there are not enough programmers in the world, and that’s why they are in a great demand, like If universities don’t train us good enough to have the skills to contribute to the 21<sup>st</sup> century economy, then there’s not going to be an ecosystem in PR, because companies wouldn’t have to hire so they can grow. We as UIF’s our main job is to project the I&E mindset so that future graduates don’t graduate and then be only employees for a company, there’s nothing wrong with being an employee, but be an employee with an IE mindset, so that you can become an entrepreneur in your company. Us as UIFs in PR our job is to make students know that there are more options than being an employee, you can be a freelancer, you can be an entrepreneur. We need to help faculties to move this mindset in universities so when students graduate get to a higher expectation than what they had.
The I&E ecosystem in PR is a very broad topic. The innovation and entrepreneurship topic is very broad cause they have a lot of organizations, different components, I usually tend to customize towards the area, for example in PR we have a different ecosystem than in Mexico or any other country, because we’re an island, we have different characteristics, different culture, different talents, it’s a whole different industry. Because ecosystems have many components and they are broad, I think the best way I have in order to know what an ecosystem is that I like to think about it as in individuals, as in I am an entrepreneur, what resources I need as an entrepreneur to grow a business, for example, let’s say that we want to create the competitor of a multi-millionaire company here in PR, like Google or Facebook or something equivalent, cause there’s not going to be a next Google or Facebook, there’s going to be something new, unheard off, but let’s say that we want to create that company here in PR, we have to reverse engineer, what resources we need to have to reach its maximum potential, some examples as seed capitals, programmers, that I think there are not enough programmers in this world, organizations that support entrepreneurship, community events, co-working spaces, a lot of different components, and of course universities, and there is when the UIF’s come in. Universities are an essential part of the ecosystem because they produce the talents that the ecosystem needs in order to thrive. Like I said there are not enough programmers in the world, and that’s why they are in a great demand, like If universities don’t train us good enough to have the skills to contribute to the 21<sup>st</sup> century economy, then there’s not going to be an ecosystem in PR, because companies wouldn’t have to hire so they can grow. We as UIF’s our main job is to project the I&E mindset so that future graduates don’t graduate and then be only employees for a company, there’s nothing wrong with being an employee, but be an employee with an IE mindset, so that you can become an entrepreneur in your company. Us as UIFs in PR our job is to make students know that there are more options than being an employee, you can be a freelancer, you can be an entrepreneur. We need to help faculties to move this mindset in universities so when students graduate get to a higher expectation than what they had.