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Formación por medio del servicio. Un modelo de servicio social universitario en apoyo a microempresas marginadas

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Mungaray, Alejandro (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California)
Ocegueda, Juan Manuel (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California)
Ledezma, David (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California)
Ramírez, Natanael (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California)
Ramírez, Martín (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California)
Alcalá, Carmen (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California)
Abstract

Innovation and development are strategic issues supporting the competitiveness of regions in the global world; consequently education plays a critical roll. Though, economic policies applied by most of the governments has been insufficient to promote growth and equity, which may be explained greatly by the failure of large groups of micro and small enterprises to increase productivity and become more competitive in markets. This fact makes promoting knowledge spillovers and learning toward these enterprises priority as to overcome their technological constraints. In this context, higher education institutions become strategic. This paper presents an assistance program based in the university community service in favor of unprivileged micro enterprises which encourages innovation and productivity through knowledge and technological spillovers as to turn these enterprises more competitive. Results show that these enterprises are able to improve their economic performance through the university technical assistance and that universities are capable of contributing with an industrial policy promoting their development and mitigating poverty.// El ambiente competitivo alentado por los procesos de globalización económica ha hecho que la innovación y el desarrollo se erijan como la principal estrategia competitiva, por lo que la educación juega un papel trascendental. Por otra parte, las políticas económicas impulsadas por los gobiernos han sido insuficientes para promover crecimiento con equidad, a lo que abona en gran medida el hecho de que grandes segmentos de micro y pequeñas empresas enfrenten dificultades para aumentar la productividad y ser competitivas. Ello torna prioritaria la creación de mecanismos de transferencia de conocimientos que logren superar las restricciones tecnológicas de estos segmentos, proceso en el que las instituciones de educación superior pueden tener un papel muy importante. Este artículo presenta un programa de apoyo universitario basado en el servicio social que favorece la transferencia de conocimientos empresariales hacia sectores vulnerables como las microempresas marginadas, y fomenta en ellas la productividad e innovación para convertirlas en unidades económicas más competitivas. Los resultados muestran que estas empresas son capaces de mejorar sus indicadores económicos mediante el apoyo técnico universitario y que las universidades pueden contribuir a una política industrial que promueva el desarrollo microempresarial y atenúe el rezago social que existe en el país.

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Article provided by Fondo de Cultura Económica in its journal El Trimestre Económico.

Volume (Year): LXXIV (4) (2007)
Issue (Month): 296 (octubre-diciembre)
Pages: 987-1011
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Handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:74:y:2007:i:296:p:987-1011

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Keywords: community service; micro and small enterprises; unprivileged micro and small enterprises; higher education institutions; entrepreneurial learning; technical assistance; servicio social; micro y pequeñas empresas; microempresas marginadas; instituciones de educación superior; aprendizaje empresarial; apoyo técnico;

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