Entrepreneurial Technology and Innovation in the Canton of Alausí
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Abstract
Ecuador is considered an entrepreneurial and innovative country. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and the Global Entrepreneurship Development Institute (GEDI), the tendency to start a business and innovate in Ecuador is amongst the highest in the world. Thus, this study investigates the latest technological innovations as well as managerial strategies adopted by start-ups in Alausí during the challenging period of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a descriptive analysis that uses quantitative data collected through a survey of a representative sample of entrepreneurs in Alausí and its surrounding areas. It is also a nonexperimental, cross-sectional study. Moreover, data were analyzed and the main findings suggested that at least a quarter of start-ups adopted new channels for both promoting and commercializing products and services, making use of social media and online platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Zoom, amongst others. Additionally, it was found that some entrepreneurs went further and took other measures such as reducing working hours and salaries as a way to lower their operating costs and retaining employees, which allowed them to continue operating during the sanitary crisis. Keywords: business innovation, entrepreneurship, business technology. Resumen Ecuador es un país eminentemente emprendedor e innovador, de acuerdo con el (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - GEM y Global Entrepreneurship Development Institute - GEDI) la tendencia a empezar un negocio e innovar se encuentra entre las más altas del mundo. Por este motivo, se ha considerado un tema coyuntural de interés para la investigación científica que busca determinar las estrategias de innovación tecnológica y administrativa adoptadas por los emprendimientos del cantón Alausí como respuesta a los desafíos presentes en medio de la pandemia. Para lo cual se utilizó el método de enfoque cuantitativo-descriptivo, según el grado de control y aleatoriedad es un diseño no experimental de estudio transversal, que se dió inicio por medio de la revisión de la literatura y la aplicación de encuestas a una muestra representativa de los emprendedores del cantón Alausí. Los datos se analizaron y codificaron de acuerdo a lo propuesto por la metodología, se encontró que la cuarta parte de los emprendimientos adoptó nuevos canales de comercialización y promoción de sus productos y servicios, a través de plataformas digitales y redes sociales como WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Zoom, entre otros. Adicionalmente, se determinó que algunos emprendedores adoptaron la reducción de horas de trabajo y el salario como estrategia de optimización de costos operativos, como alternativa de retención a sus empleados, por lo que lograron mantener el funcionamiento de sus operaciones durante la crisis sanitaria. Palabras Clave: innovación en los negocios, emprendimiento, tecnología en los negocios.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".