INNOVATION IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP COMPETENCE IN STUDENTS AT A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY

Ramos Cavero M.J. · Universidad y Sociedad (2022)

Resumen

The objective of this study is to determine the influence of the “Innovasocial” Program on the competence of social entrepreneurship in business students of a private university, the method used is the hypothetical deductive, the type of work that was carried out is applied, since A program called “Innovasocial” was developed to improve the competence of social entrepreneurship. The design used was quasi-experimental, and the instrument used was “Scale to Assess Social Entrepreneurship Competency in Higher Education” through a virtual questionnaire, and it has validity by experts and Cronbach’s Alpha reliability with a value of 0.820. This instrument was applied to a sample of 40 students, 20 from the control group and 20 from the experimental group. As main results, an increase of 30% in the high level of social entrepreneurship in students, 20% in personal characteristics, 35% in social characteristics and innovative characteristics was obtained, the students went from 50% in medium level to 90 % at high level. Regarding the influence of the “innovasocial” program on the social entrepreneurship competence, the Mann-Whitney U test shows that it influences the social entrepreneurship competence (p < 0.05), personal traits (p<0, 05), in the social characteristics (p<0.05) and in the innovative characteristics (p<0.05). As a main conclusion, it was shown that the “Innovasocial” Program influences the social entrepreneurship competence with a level of significance of there was a p value of 0.019 (p < 0.05).

Instituciones: Universidad César Vallejo