Through a collaborative partnership between Latino diabetes patients, community stakeholders, and researchers, we developed insights into patient-engaged research. Here, we share what we have learned about a patient-engaged research process in relation to the experience of our Patient Advisors and to the research itself. To develop this manuscript, we engaged in ex post facto critical analysis of our collaborative experience. We include our own musings with input and insights from our Patient Advisors. We learned how our Patient Advisors experience and participate in research, and we revealed dimensions of the research process. Our patient-engaged research with this population is supported by funding for stipends and food, acknowledging patient perspectives and experience, attention to communication issues, strong listening skills, relationship-building, and spending time creating an integrated group dynamic. Using this approach, patient ideas and concerns can be successfully incorporated into research design.

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In recent years, entrepreneurship has been one of the most discussed issues among government agencies, education institutions and international organizations, given the restrictions on the labor market. The above, since entrepreneurship is considered as an important mechanism to generate direct and indirect jobs. However, the increasing participation of electronic mechanisms in society has transformed the way we carry out our activities, redefining the processes through which the various goods and services are produced and offered. Therefore, there is a consensus towards the need for entrepreneurs to adopt a profile oriented towards social media and electronic commerce. However, this topic is still in its first stages, so it is necessary to identify how much these concepts have been integrated into the university entrepreneurial ecosystem, which represents one of the main channels for promoting entrepreneurial culture. After a study among a group of students graduated from university, it was detected that they attach high importance to social networks and electronic commerce, since they allow them to increase their presence in the markets at a relatively low cost; however, its adoption process has been heterogeneous, given the lack of knowledge of many tools and the lack of financing. Finally, a series of recommendations that could improve these skills among future entrepreneurs from the university level are indicated.

Entrepreneurship has positioned itself as one of the main goals of both public and private agencies. This topic has been linked to urban areas population, marginalizing different groups and sectors, including the inhabitants of the rural areas have been included, which, usually considered by their lower income and social welfare, due to their inability to access sources of employment and services. Then, this research parts from a theoretical review of rural entrepreneurship and subsequently, explores the results from the application of a research instrument, focused on the perception of a group of rural tourism entrepreneurs was measured about the scope of their projects, pointing out the faced barriers and the gains that have been produced in their communities.

This innovative educational project is the result of the work of a group of academics, who met the challenges of the 21st century, added their specific visions and made contact with transdisciplinarity and the formation of a significant formation in their students of the Educational Administration Program with learning orientated to the transfer, that is to say new fields of application (Campirán et al, 2005); this transit was possible through the metacognition resulting from the synergy found at the Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico) and the HEC University Montreal (Canada) to generate spaces that transcend the classrooms and thus express this vision that would allow to refocus and redirect their educational goals (Campirán et al, 2005). Internationalization of social entrepreneurship is part of an educational bonding project led by the academic group CA-UV-367 "Entrepreneurship, Management and Internalization" from which academics articulate formally the critical and complex exercise for an object-relation of learning of different visions: academic formation (curricular design); accommodation (spiral organization); development of visions based on competencies (Campirán, 1999, in Morado, 1999 and integrative concepts (Campirán et al, 2005). The results obtained from the exercise and the use of the transdisciplinary vision approach greatly enriched the units of competence and the curricular contents of educational experiences: Strategic and economic planning over time promoted and strengthened in students their comprehensive and flexible training in addition to enhancing their resources and academic capabilities by projecting themselves as members of a global community.