The article presents an extension of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to identify, in a Latin American university, the students who are children of entrepreneurial parents and the determinants of their willingness to succeed them. The TPB is used as a basis to analyse the intention to be a successor, and three constructs are added: affective commitment, normative commitment and parental role model. The analysis is carried out using structural equations via the partial least squares (PLS) method, which allows for the study of multiple relationships between construct-type variables. The sample includes 16,185 Latin American university students from the Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey 2018 database. The results show that, in Latin American students, the determining factors in the intention to be a successor are attitude, the affective and normative commitment and the parental role model. The latter has a negative and significant effect on the intention to be a successor in the family business. One of the practical implications of this study has to do with the development of an affective feeling of the offspring towards the family business. Generating this kind of attachment since childhood could lead to achieving a greater relevance of the parental role model and a stronger interest in the succession of the business.

La actividad emprendedora es un motor para el desarrollo y crecimiento de las economías dado su aporte en la generación de trabajo, innovación, diversificación de actividad productiva y la movilidad social. Es importante identificar los factores que permiten el surgimiento de emprendedores. El objetivo del estudio es comparar la actividad emprendedora en etapa inicial para Chile y Colombia usando datos del Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Se hizo un análisis estadístico descriptivo y un modelo logístico, mediante los cuales fue posible determinar diferencias y similitudes del perfil emprendedor y las variables que explican la tasa de actividad emprendedora inicial y su efecto predictor. Los resultados muestran que los emprendedores de Chile y Colombia son similares: mayoritariamente hombres que buscan una oportunidad de negocio con edad entre 25 y 44 años, tienen educación superior y tienen ingresos altos. La actividad emprendedora inicial se explica a partir de: miedo al fracaso (efecto negativo), conocer a emprendedores y poseer capacidades. En Chile son bastante estables las probabilidades de incorporarse a la actividad emprendedora inicial y en Colombia las variables conocer emprendedores y tener capacidades han ido perdiendo relevancia como predictoras del emprendimiento.

In the present study, the relationships between the application of a diffuse tool applied to irrigation systems in watermelon crops are explored, as well as modeling and simulation as a tool applied to the same crop. Both tools were worked through Matlab® software, control cards with sensors and meteorological stations, where the data related to the climatic conditions of the Study Region were taken and measured. It is concluded that the simulated and applied system is economically viable as an alternative for the increase of production in small, medium and large farmers of Watermelon, in the Sabanas Region of the Department of Sucre. In addition, the system is technically stable from the point of view of Control Theory with an error ratio of less than 1.5%, demonstrating good levels of liquid optimization and energy consumption.