Duarte, D., & Osorio, D. L., &  González Barahona, C., & Melo Perdomo, S. M., & Lucena, J. C. (2018, June), Regional Innovation Cluster: The Role of the Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Closing the Gap Between Engineering Education and the Challenges of the Local Communities.   Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--30928

\bibitem{asee_peer_30928}
  Duarte, D., \& Osorio, D. L., \&  González Barahona, C., \& Melo Perdomo, S. M., \& Lucena, J. C. (2018, June), \emph{Regional Innovation Cluster: The Role of the Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Closing the Gap Between Engineering Education and the Challenges of the Local Communities. }
  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah.
  10.18260/1-2--30928

Diana Duarte, David Leonardo Osorio, Carolina  González Barahona, Sandra Milena Melo Perdomo, and Juan C. Lucena.  "Regional Innovation Cluster: The Role of the Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Closing the Gap Between Engineering Education and the Challenges of the Local Communities. ".  2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2018.  https://peer.asee.org/30928 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_30928}
  Diana Duarte, David Leonardo Osorio, Carolina  González Barahona, Sandra Milena Melo Perdomo, and Juan C. Lucena.
  "Regional Innovation Cluster: The Role of the Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Closing the Gap Between Engineering Education and the Challenges of the Local Communities. ".
  \emph{2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2018.
  https://peer.asee.org/30928 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

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author = "Diana Duarte, David Leonardo Osorio, Carolina  González Barahona, Sandra Milena Melo Perdomo, and Juan C. Lucena"
title = "Regional Innovation Cluster: The Role of the Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Closing the Gap Between Engineering Education and the Challenges of the Local Communities. "
booktitle = "2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition "
year = "2018"
month = "June"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The Universities in Latinoamerica have the potential to contribute to the  economic, social and environmental transformation of the rural communities in order to build a present more sustainable and resilience. The Regional Innovation Cluster is a Colombian social entrepreneurship that had developed a collective action model where rural communities needs are transformed into challenging question for  engineering classroom projects, or  other disciplines, where the main objective is the collective co-creation of solutions.  Along the semester the students face the implications of its profession in a rural context. The objective of the model is to generate a collective movement where professors and students have an important role in the development of the communities that surround them. This paper presents the impacts results of the Cluster that nowadays have the participation of more than 600 students from  the  most important universities in Bogotá  and Cartagena. During its two years of implementation have developed solutions related to quinoa producers, rural tourism initiatives, recycling, sustainable fishing and others. One of the main findings is the important of the challenge based learning model implementation in order to align students, professors and communities expectation. Also, the need for implement strategies to deal with the communicational gaps between professionals and rural communities. 

AU  - Diana Duarte
AU  - David Leonardo Osorio
AU  - Carolina  González Barahona
AU  - Sandra Milena Melo Perdomo
AU  - Juan C. Lucena
CY  - Salt Lake City, Utah
DA  - 2018/06/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Regional Innovation Cluster: The Role of the Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Closing the Gap Between Engineering Education and the Challenges of the Local Communities. 
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/30928
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--30928
ER  -