Experts discuss solutions to address depopulation and attract the diaspora back to the island. #NewsismyBusiness
Gloria Viscasillas, who worked at Banco Popular and served as integrative leader of the Echar Pa’Lante initiatives, will direct the new entity. #NewsismyBusiness
The initiative is promoted by Popular and is backed by experts from the Echar Pa'Lante Multisector Alliance. #NewsismyBusiness
The Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC, in Spanish), jointly with the Echar Pa’Lante Multisectoral Alliance, are sponsoring a series of trainings for college professors on entrepreneurial mindset, the Youth Startup Experience and a symposium led by Babson College. “For the past four years, our agency has been collaborating with Babson College, through the […]
For the sixth consecutive year, the Echar Pa’lante Multisectoral Alliance recognized individuals and organizations whose trajectory has helped to develop entrepreneurship on the island. The activity called “Pillars of Entrepreneurship 2019” took place as part of the quarterly meeting of Echar Pa’lante’s Advisory during which the achievements of 2019 and the plans for 2020 were […]
Focusing education on learning, rather than teaching and students rather than curricula, taking into account skills, content and culture are the key to the successful change of the island’s entrepreneurial landscape, two international entrepreneurship and innovation experts agreed during their participation in the seventh “Echar Pa’lante” conference. Luca Iandoli, associate dean for global and online […]
In an effort to continue stimulating the accelerated growth of entrepreneurship in Puerto Rico, so that it serves as an engine for the economic and social progress, multisectoral alliance Echar Pa’lante, the University of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Patent Office recently launched a series of intellectual property workshops for educators. The […]
Faced with the changes the world is experiencing given the advances in technology, the traditional education model must be transformed to one of lifelong learning so that individuals are always prepared and ready to effectively adapt to changes in their work and community environment. Singapore, recently named the most competitive country in the world by […]
Puerto Rico needs to accelerate the transformation of its education system to effectively integrate lessons in entrepreneurship and innovation in the school curriculum.
Echar Pa’lante, an initiative Banco Popular launched five years ago to empower a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation, is looking ahead to further linking academia, the government and the private sector to help restore Puerto Rico’s economy.
The multi-sectorial “Echar Pa’lante” alliance sponsored by Banco Popular recently joined forces with the Georgia Institute of Technology, to train more than 110 university professors from eight universities on entrepreneurship.
Banco Popular’s “Echar Pa’lante” institutional campaign, launched five months ago, is entering a new phase this year that calls for developing a long-term blueprint to foster entrepreneurship and education to help drive Puerto Rico’s individual and collective growth.
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