XXVI LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP

1. HISTORY The Latin American Congress on Entrepreneurship is an event designed and executed by the Center for Entrepreneurship Development (CDEE), University Icesi, which main goal is to stimulate the development, in Latin America, of an academic and business community concerned about the themes of: entrepreneurship, creation and strengthening of new business, SME´s development and entrepreneurial education. Since 1987, 25 Latin American Congress on Entrepreneurship has been organized, many of them with the significant cooperation of prestigious Latin-American universities. Congresses were held in:

COLOMBIA • Cali (Universidad Icesi) 1987, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2009,

2011, 2013, 2015. • Bogotá (Universidad Icesi) 2002. • Bogotá (Universidad EAN - Universidad Icesi) 1992, 1999. • Medellín (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana - Universidad Icesi) 1996. BRASIL • Florianópolis (Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina- Universidad Icesi) 2008. COSTA RICA • San José de Costa Rica (Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica - Universidad Icesi)

1998.

CHILE • Santiago de Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Universidad Icesi)

1991. ECUADOR • Quito (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar- Universidad Icesi) 2012. PANAMÁ

• Panamá (Universidad Latina - Universidad Icesi) 2006. • Panamá (Quality Leadership University - Universidad Icesi) 2016. PERÚ • Lima (Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola - Universidad Icesi) 2007. PUERTO RICO • Puerto Rico (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Campus Mayagüez - Universidad Icesi)

1995. MÉXICO • Monterrey (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey -

Universidad Icesi) 1989. • Ciudad de México (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Campus Xochimilco -

Universidad Icesi) 1993.

In all the Latin American Congress on entrepreneurship, the presence of world-class keynote speakers, of Latin American business leaders and researchers has been a constant. The Congress has allowed in this way to bring the perspectives of many countries providing a real actualization and exchange of knowledge for the development of the Latin-American academic group. Attendees to this event are undergraduate and graduate university students, teachers and professors of related areas in the different levels of education, researchers, professionals that provide support to SME`s and entrepreneurship programs, bank representatives, government officials and entrepreneurs. The idea is that all of them be characterized by their interest in: developing their businesses, to learn about successful experiences that are being developed in different regions of the world and which could serve to improve the develop of their own programs, to establishing new business support activities, to create new educational programs in the academic areas, to develop new research projects, to identify new business trends and to update their knowledge in 2. BASIC CONCEPT FOR THE XXVI LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS

ON ENTREPRENERUSHIP

This decade has been characterized by a series of economic, social, political, cultural and demographic changes that have been shaking the environment in which we live and, particularly, have been affecting the environment of companies and entrepreneurs. There is a trend to decrease the percentage of population that indicates that they are in a traditional position of employee, and a growth of the percentage of the population that must resort to diverse strategies to generate their income: temporary jobs, creation of new enterprises, working as free-lance, doing business activities by themselves, among others. The business environment is supremely dynamic, The life cycles of products / services / business have been drastically reduced and business innovation plays with great intensity, the "creative destruction" that Schumpeter theorized. Today the companies with the biggest economic value are based on models of new companies and technologies that have been called "exponential". They have implemented a culture of entrepreneurship; they involve collaborative innovation processes, they work inside business networks with global orientations and they are searching for productive application of the new knowledge. Politically, we live special situations that we still do not know how they will affect the global economic environment and the processes of trade. The policies of the new US government, the Brexit, the problems of migration, the conflicts in the Middle East, the effect in many countries (including Latin Americans) of the decrease of the prices of primary products, especially oil , minerals and agriculture based products, will generate situations that add uncertainty to business processes. In some Latin American countries there have been strong exchange rate adjustments, complex diplomatic and commercial situations, establishment of new taxes, complex social and political situations and changes in the orientation of some governments. In the Colombian and neighboring countries, the post-conflict period generates a series of economic and social challenges, since the reintegration of all the people involved in the conflict, the processes of restoration of lands and properties will require special efforts of the government and of the civil society. The big question we have to answer is how to reintegrate to productive life into all these people, and the business creation option is undoubtedly one of the best ways to explore. In the demographic, not only the change of composition of the demographic pyramid affects the environment, but also the millennials' conceptions of life, the existence of “ninis” and “nininis”, the increase of life expectancies, the greater participation of women in the

economic and social sphere, smaller families, and the difficulties of pensioners are all factors that are changing the business environment. All these facts, and those associated with and derived from them, led to the selection of the theme "The Creation of Companies in a New World Order", as the central theme of this XXVI Latin American Congress on Entrepreneurship. The purpose is that Latin Americans can identify well the circumstances under which business will develop in the coming years and formulate adequate policies, programs, projects and actions to strengthen the ecosystem of support to business development and through this achieve the ideal that many times the CDEE-Icesi has raised "more and better companies with more and better entrepreneurs", to achieve the development goals that we all seek. OBJECTIVES The main objectives of the XXVI Latin American Congress on Entrepreneurship: "The Creation of Companies in the New World Order" are: • Identify new social, political and economic scenarios, and their influence on business creation processes. • Identify the new sectors and new models that will be used to create a company in the coming years. • Characterize the new business typologies and observe the concept of entrepreneur is widening • To stimulate the design of entrepreneurial support ecosystems adjusted to the Latin American realities. • Design educational processes, at all levels, for the development of entrepreneurial competencies. • Strengthen the coordinated work processes, in order to create business networks that facilitate the development of companies. • Disseminate Latin American research directly associated with entrepreneurial process

3. STRUCTURE The XXIII Latin American Congress on Entrepreneurship has the following components: Keynote Conferences: We will invite several worldwide-recognized keynote speakers to present new concepts about the basic subjects of the Congress. They will be selected and defined by the Academic Director of the Congress. Panels: Panels shall be arranged on several specific issues related to the theme of the Congress. These panels may be proposed either by the Academic Committee and / or by any interested person. Workshops: These will be oriented to develop entrepreneurial competences and any interested person can propose them.

Papers: There will be parallel sessions to present results of research projects and / or developments that have been undertaken in the last year. They may be proposed by anyone, but must meet the requirement of new

Poster Sessions: The proposals that are still under development or the project to be developed in the next years will be presented in these sessions. 4. THEMATIC AREAS The policy of the Latin American Congresses on Entrepreneurship has always been to ensure that all the activities of the Congress (Keynote lectures, parallel sessions, workshops, panels, posters, conversations, cooperative sessions, etc.) be oriented to generate conclusions that are useful in entrepreneurship development, and in that sense it will privilege the works that offer replicable strategies and actions in the different Latin American countries, in the basic thematic areas. In the XXVI edition, the following thematic areas will be the focus of the congress, and only works that are directly related to them and to the objectives of the Congress will be accepted. NEW SCENARIOS Creation and development of companies in:

• The post- peace agreement. • The age of abundance. • The postindustrial era. • New policy orientations. • The new orientations of the free trade agreements and the processes of integration. • The environment of millennials, young “ninis” and “nininis”. • Demographic changes, lifestyle changes and gender conceptions. NEW SECTORS AND BUSINESS MODELS • Exponential technologies. • Big Data. •Technology of the information and communication. • 3D production. • Biotechnology. • Culture and sport. • Nanotechnology. • Internet of things. • Robotics. • Sustainability models. • Inclusion models. NEW ENTREPRENEURS • Post- peace agreement entrepreneurs. • High impact entrepreneurs. • Unicorns: Reality or Myth? • Women Entrepreneurs. • Social entrepreneur. • Civic entrepreneur. • Corporate entrepreneur. • Network entrepreneur (co-working). • Entrepreneurs in marginalized communities. NEW ENTREPRENEURIAL SUPPORT ECOSYSTEM • Education and pedagogy in Entrepreneurship. • Creativity and innovation as core competencies. • Incubators, accelerators, and business development centers. • The company as an ecosystem for the intrapreneurs. • Business networks.

• Training programs at different levels. • The condition of national infrastructure. • Leaks in the business pipeline. It is important that all the speakers have the clarity that this Congress is focused on the issues of creation and development of new companies and therefore only works oriented to the analysis of these core issues will be accepted. Traditional issues of business administration, economics, social sciences and humanities that are not directly related to new business cre