The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of universities and other institutions in successful entrepreneurship. Insights are obtained following a literature review approach. Case studies from the United States (New York startup), Spain (Mondragon), and Germany provide strong evidence that universities are very instrumental in the creation, design and implementation of entrepreneurial initiatives by providing new and ongoing entrepreneurs with human capital training, fundamentals, and theoretical and empirical models to contribute to lasting businesses. Results from university research on gender and risk-issues lead to believe that women are more risk averse than men to work and invest in star-up businesses. Other institutions, such as governments, are critical to provide with the necessary incentives to launch start-up businesses, including tax cuts, seed capital funding, investm...

En este libro se analizan tópicos esenciales de Política Económica a través de modelos macroeconómicos que son estudiados desde una perspectiva cuantitativa y desde un enfoque cualitativo utilizando retratos de fase. Los modelos le permiten al lector hacer un uso adecuado de las herramientas del álgebra lineal, del cálculo diferencial e integral, de los sistemas de Ecuaciones Diferenciales Ordinarias (EDOs) y de Ecuaciones en Diferencias Ordinarias (EEDOs), de la optimización intertemporal óptima o de los modelos de Equilibrio General Dinámico y Estocástico.