This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Juan Andrés Fontaine: Bringing Creativity and Innovation to Chile's Universities" from November 29, 2010, featuring a discussion between Tina and Juan Andrés Fontaine about the evolving focus of Chilean universities towards entrepreneurship and innovation, and the desired entrepreneurial mindset for students.
Certainly we have a room full of students here who are thinking about what can I learn in the classroom? And extracurricular programs that will prepare me to enter this entrepreneurial world. What's happening in the universities in Chile to make that happen?
Well, we do have good universities in terms of the training, the quality of the professors are good, the curriculum, but they have been focused basically on sciences or other typical subjects, not that much on training in entrepreneurship. And with your help, Tina and others, they are now focusing that. And that's a revolution that is happening in Chilean universities these days. And that's going to change probably the curriculum, but also the way the professors see their role, because we are not used, for example, having science professors thinking in terms of patents, research or of engineering professors, things in terms of startups. That's something a bit new for us, but it's changing these days.
Great. So what sort of things do you want your students to learn? What would you hope they would come out of school knowing or prepared to do?
Well, that depends a bit on the subject, of course.
No, no, but related to innovation and entrepreneurship?
Well, basically to have this frame of mind that actually gets them to think in terms of problems that have to be solved. And there is a value of actually finding out the way to solve the problem and to be willing to take the risks to ride the benefits of that and born the costs of eventual failure. That kind of entrepreneurial frame of mind is what we want to teach, basically.
