El rol de las instituciones de educación superior en el desarrollo de competencias emprendedoras en emprendedores noveles. Una aproximación desde el modelo Tuning.

The objective of this research is to know and compare the development of entrepreneurial skills between new entrepreneurs who have gone through higher education institutions and those who have not. The Tuning model was used as a theoretical framework, more specifically the general skills described there. Using qualitative methodology, with a phenomenological design, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 new entrepreneurs, based in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina, 15 of whom have gone through higher education and 15 who have not. They mainly dealt with the history of the venture, its structure and operation, the profile of the entrepreneur and retrospective and prospective evaluations. The results show that both groups of new entrepreneurs develop a low amount of entrepreneurial skills. In relation to this, it is stated that the greatest potential of higher education institutions is not found in developing new competences, but in generating changes of the qualitative order in the existing ones.