Mauricio Castillo-Vergara is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business at Alberto Hurtado University. He holds PhD in Economics and Business from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain. His areas of work are entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and SMEs. He has been involved in the world of entrepreneurship since 2004, when he began to develop his own companies, and since 2013, he has sought to transmit this experience in academia, being a mentor for various entrepreneurship and innovation projects, winners of national and international competitions. He is a member of the Foundation for Strategic Analysis and Development of SMEs (FAEDPYME), in which he participated as an independent expert in the Index of Public Policies for MSMEs in Latin America and the Caribbean developed by the OECD. He has led research projects, including “Creativity in SMEs and effects on business performance in an emerging economy” and “Evaluation of entrepreneurship and innovation in the creative capacity of Students from educational institutions in the Coquimbo Region”. Before his work at the Alberto Hurtado University, he was a professor at the University of La Serena and was also part of the team of the Engineering 2030 Regions program of CORFO, in which he had the opportunity to carry out benchmarking at universities such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley, among others.