Logistics skills importance´s for entrepreneurship´s sustainability

Abstract

In recent years, the creation of new business models has promoted entrepreneurship in Colombia, making it the third country in Latin America with the best ecosystems for entrepreneurship, where 31% of the country's new companies have been established in the Bogotá region DC, Cundinamarca, and about 99% of these entrepreneurship projects have been microenterprises oriented to commerce and services. However, main entrepreneurs´ difficulty have experienced has been the sustainability of these projects, due in large part to planning´s lack and human talent´s training in logistics. This is how training by competencies in logistics’ field must be strengthened in line with these requirements, new technologies’ incorporation, and different economic sector´s particularities. Research objective´s was to validate with a nineteen companies’ sample from Bogota´s logistics sector, development and relevance technical skills staff´s, identifying skills to strengthen, with aim integrating them into the teaching-learning processes academic sector´s as fundamental pillars for entrepreneurship’s sustainability in Bogotá.