**3. StartUPS: an entrepreneurship background**

The culture of innovation at Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (UPS) seeks to develop a new more complex and formulated concept in [27], which explains that "the university just like a jungle (ecosystem) takes inert and inorganic elements such as knowledge and science to create thriving ecosystems of living organisms whose interactions make up society." This innovative concept seeks to change the educational linearity that governs classrooms toward the productivity of innovation and creativity in spaces or associative groups that share common and multidisciplinary interests (cowork), that break what is conventional, and maintain the center of interest in people, basis of UPS's culture and a primary agent in the interaction and collaboration with diverse talents that seek to transcend social barriers in favor of connectivism [28–30], learning to learn [31–33] and the common good [34].

The ecosystem of innovation at UPS is intended to be something like a free zone, where the flow of ideas, talents and capital can be maximized in a network of collaborative work. The importance of creating places within the institution to encourage this new university culture has been hard and fundamental work in order to "generate" a new educational model based on an individual's life project; therefore, one of the aims of the StartUPS project is that students/professors from the university integrate all the knowledge they have acquired in real-life projects and that they develop behavioral, contextual and technical competences [6] within spaces like the "coworks."

The coworking UPS project is part of UPS's strategy, to become a university of research and innovation, and the culture of entrepreneurship represents a fundamental factor in the achievement of these objectives in the short and long term. In 2015, a series of agreements to integrate the culture of "project work" were adopted in order to develop measures to promote innovation in UPS. This process of change has been accompanied by training for UPS agents (teachers and students) to develop a culture of entrepreneurship and their project management competences. The idea of fostering entrepreneurship from project management competences was aimed at creating an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem (coworking StartUPS project). This strategy is part of the implementation processes of Research Groups and Educational Innovation Groups (EIG) at UPS, jointly promoting Research and Educational Innovation, based on the participation of students and teachers who are competent for project management.

As mentioned in [6], "the methodology used within the ecosystem to generate the coworking experience is based on the Working with People (WWP) model, aimed at building dynamics of innovation and learning based on projects"; therefore, the executing and catalytic axis of the entire competence assessment within the coworking StartUPS ecosystem has a project key point. The main idea is to incubate and enhance the abilities of each individual based on the activities that he/she performs within a project or in different proposed events such as: boot camps (RECREATE/RETHOS), mini-boot camps, hackathons, workshops, training courses, research groups and others.

The components discussed in [6] to sustain the ecosystem mention four, a socio-ethical component, a technical-business component, a political-contextual component and an integrating component, which is social learning, oriented to developing a network of entrepreneurship among the university's entrepreneurs, through spaces of learning, discussion and reflection generated in different areas of the university with the participation of faculties and courses. This component is mainly undertaken by the entrepreneurship centers, or coworking spaces, which serve as support to the entrepreneur and allow their interaction. This way they find the physical space of work and the necessary advice so that their ideas and learnings are connected with the national and international market. This connects the UPS entrepreneurship ecosystem with the local, national and international level.
