Entrepreneurship educators joined real-life entrepreneurs to learn about entrepreneurship content and pedagogy at the 2008 Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (BabsonSEE) this April in Guayaquil, at Babson’s partner institution, Universidad San Francisco de Quito.

Babson College and Grupo Isaias developed a customized version of BabsonSEE for entrepreneurship educators in Ecuador.  The intensive three-day program explored the entrepreneurial process and core topics in the discipline.  One-hundred twenty participants from throughout Ecuador were in attendance.  The goal of the program was to help all participants become more effective, innovative teachers of entrepreneurship.  Topics covered included:

• The Entrepreneurial Perspective on Teaching
• Mapping the Territory and the Entrepreneurial Mindset – delivered in Spanish
• Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mindset and Idea Lab
• What is a Case?
• Challenges in the “Clashroom” Seeking Wise Counsel
• From Family Business to Family Enterprising:  A Next Generation Approach- delivered in Spanish
• Entrepreneurship Curriculum Design
• Entrepreneurship in Ecuador
• Extending Entrepreneurship Education
• Entrepreneurship at Your Institution
• The Entrepreneurial Mind in Action

Babson’s Walter Esquivel and Heidi Neck were the faculty team for this program. 

“The program was a success by all standards which most certainly includes the training of 120 participants including educational and public institutions, student associations, and representation of the private sector—a true impact of the entrepreneurial spirit in the mindset of Ecuador’s civil society.  The concept of value creation through Social Entrepreneurship for the benefit of their own communities and the creation of wealth for businesses was highlighted throughout the program,” said Esquivel, Director of The William F. Glavin Center for Global Management and, The Luksic Director Institute Latin America Business, Babson College.