Celaya, Gto. November 10, 2018.- Jonathan Koppell, a researcher at Arizona State University, began his lecture "Public policies and the innovation of Technological Institute" highlighting the importance of collaboration between educational institutions in the United States and Mexico, to guide strategies that promote innovation in the classroom.

The professor and lecturer marked as urgent to stop thinking about the university as the place to learn and prepare for professional life and make it the ideal space to start business; He referred to the model implemented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, where companies have been incubated today as world leaders in their respective branches.

Graduated of Harvard University and Berkeley University in California, Jonathan Koppell has focused his recent work on preparing students in research centers to acquire community and public service commitments.

From experience, he believes that universities should devote more resources to the training and development of projects where the capability of the students is exploited. And that government policies should be designed to encourage innovation and technological development in the classroom, as well as protect entrepreneurial ideas so that no one can steal them, and the new creations are materialized without hindrance.

He talked about the model of innovation and creation of new companies in the United States, which has represented the neighboring country of the North success stories; he considered that Mexico should seek the means to do the same. "Only based on innovation, a business becomes successful and with prosperous businesses a country grows," he established.

During his lecture, fully taught in English to reinforce students' understanding of a second language, Koppell made a recount of the history of American universities and recalled that in the 1970s began to become a priority is the investment of universities in the creation of new businesses. In this way, in the last five decades, the number of new businesses formed in the classrooms has multiplied exponentially.

The National Academic of Public Administration Fellow said that economic investment in strong amounts is vital to give new opportunities to young people seeking to undertake from school.

He set an example to the University of Arizona that invested 600 million dollars in the last year in research on entrepreneurship, patent development and entrepreneurship training. "In the end, the goal is to turn students ' ideas into real and executable business," he said.

Before concluding his lecture, the expert outlined the course that schools and the Mexican government should follow: "A country is not going to change if ideas stay in the head. Mexico has ideas, but it does not carry them out. "

He considered that the opportunities that a university can offer to entrepreneurs are many, but it is imperative to make meetings with business people so that students can interact with people who have already started and learn from Your experience.

The participation of Dr. Jonathan Koppell was given in the framework of the 2nd. International Congress Emprende Innova UG, organized by the Celaya-Salvatierra Campus to pay for the training of students.

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