El objetivo de la presente investigación es describir y analizar la percepción de los profesores sobre las dificultades para fomentar la innovación y el emprendimiento en una institución de educación superior tradicional como lo es la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile. El estudio, de carácter cualitativo, busca mejorar la toma de decisiones por parte de las instituciones involucradas. Se llevaron a cabo entrevistas semiestructuradas con los profesores de la Facultad. Los resultados señalan que mientras el término innovación no genera resistencia entre el profesorado, emprendimiento no produce el mismo consenso, ya que para algunos se relaciona con habilidades distintas a las que debieran ser formadas en la Universidad de Chile, dado su sello de alto prestigio y calidad. Esto a su vez implica que la exigencia y carga académica para los estudiantes sea muy alta, lo cual desincentiva la realización de proyectos extracurriculares de innovación y emprendimiento. Por otro lado, se reconoce un carácter extremadamente academicista, enfocado en el desarrollo de investigación no aplicada, altamente específica y desconectada de problemáticas del medio, que responde en gran medida a los incentivos establecidos para el quehacer académico. Esta cultura academicista se permea a los estudiantes, quienes encuentran pocas instancias de conexión con la realidad en su formación, de trabajo en equipo y de relación con otras disciplinas.Palabras clave: innovación; emprendimiento; ingeniería; percepciones de los profesores. Abstract:Title: Perceptions of academics on the difficulties for the promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship: The case of the FCFM of the University of Chile The aim of this research is to describe and analyze the teachers' perception of the difficulties to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in a traditional higher education institution such as the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile. The qualitative study seeks to provide information on this topic in order to improve decision making by the institutions involved. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with faculty teachers. The results indicate that while the term innovation does not generate resistance among teachers, the term entrepreneurship does not produce the same consensus, mainly because for some of the academics, it relates to skills that do not fit with Universidad de Chile standards, given its seal of prestige and quality. This also implies that the exigence and academic load for students is very high, which disincentives the development of extracurricular innovation and entrepreneurship projects. Additionally, the interviewees recognize a highly academic character of the institution, with focus on the development of non-applied, highly specific and detached from issues of the milieu research, which responds mainly to the structure of incentives that defines the academic job. This academic culture permeates to students, who find little instances of connection with realit...
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