Introduction:

educational institutions, and especially universities, must be leading institutions in training for entrepreneurship in young people, however, various variables such as the lack of greater interest in understanding entrepreneurship as a culture and greater planning in its teaching, it prevents this intention from being understood and analyzed as a fundamental axis for predicting the entrepreneurial behaviors of students in the future.

Objetive:

to analyze the entrepreneurial intention of the business administration students of the municipality from Tunja.

Materials and methods:

from a qualitative methodology, is used a documentary analysis of the training to undertake these programs in Colombia, at the same time are analyzed the answers to open questions asked of 245 career students in this municipality.

Results:

it is found that despite the efforts made in the country, there is a bias in training, as many of the programs associate and teach entrepreneurship as the formulation of business plans and not as a culture, because when planning the study, prevails the disconnection between the university-company-state, without making a real analysis of the context. For their part, the students have many complaints about how their programs teach this topic and about the difficulty of implementing their business ideas.

Conclusions:

It is concluded that it is during childhood, adolescence and university time the ideal time for the formation of entrepreneurship in children and young people.

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