Innovation and social entrepreneurship as a strategy to confront the COVID-19 pandemic

Africa C.U.; Alexander R.C.M.; Liliana Z.A.R.; Javier S.P.F. · Revista de Ciencias Sociales (2022) · DOI: 10.31876/rcs.v28i1.37691

Resumen

In times in which humanity seeks to mitigate the scenario of isolation and social distancing generated by COVID 19, citizens implement innovation and entrepreneurship strategies as a way to respond to the social problems resulting from the pandemic. Therefore that, the present documentary review article aims to analyze such strategies, based on the content analysis of various sources of information, ordering them in checklists or checklist, as well as the computer program CmapTools to create conceptual maps to relate the data of the sampling units obtained in databases such as: Dialnet, Directory of Open Access Books, Directory of Open Access Journal, e-Journals, Latindex, Open Science Directory, Springerlink, Science Direct, SCIELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online, Redalyc, PubMed Central. 24 documents were registered and processed (academic articles and documents on web pages), concluding that, in the midst of the pandemic, innovators and their ventures have responded to the health sector in the care of the least favored such as children, adolescents and the elderly; they developed creative ideas to provide citizens with biosecurity implements, as well as the supply of drinking water.

Instituciones: Universidad Señor de Sipán