This a stakeholder profile for Think-Tank Edgar by Rodolfo Romañach.

1. Think-Tank Edgar
By: Rodolfo Romañach
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

2. About: Well tenured Professor and Intrapreneur at the
University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez with special focus
on international business, strategic management,
marketing and entrepreneurship.
Name: Think-Tank Edgar
Goals/Passions:
❏ Wants to recognize successful alumni to
motivate current students to do their best.
❏ Recently impassioned with the study of
linkages and systems.
❏ Aims to instill an entrepreneurial mindset in
students of all his classes.
Pains:
❏ Wishes to raise awareness in Puerto Rico
about what’s happening at our University’s
innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem
❏ Laments entrepreneurial education is
becoming a lucrative business for so called
“experts”.

3. Memorable Quotes
“You can’t just create the system, you have to nurture it. Therein lies the challenge.”
“Sometimes it’s not what you do, it’s what you say you do.” [In advertising]
“Our country has finally recognized the value in educating for entrepreneurship.”
“Every accomplishment, big or small, must be celebrated and recognized. We need
our external stakeholders to take notice of the great things we do.”

4. Personal Reflection:
I was surprised when Edgar proved to me that entrepreneurial education has been
taught for a long time in Puerto Rico. As evidence, he provided me with an Idea Map
handout that was used by an external speaker at an event I helped coordinate a few
weeks ago. Then he showed me a nearly identical map from the early 90’s. This
occurrence really challenged my assumption that entrepreneurship was something new
in Puerto Rico. It’s a trending topic, I feel the tipping point occurred across the last 3
years and a market need has opened. Our University must position itself to fulfill this
opportunity. Edgar mentioned one of our biggest weaknesses is advertising. Our
external stakeholders have limited awareness of the great things happening inside our
ecosystem! I learned that Edgar will be presenting in Georgetown University his own
insights on the UPR-M entrepreneurial ecosystem. I benefited a lot from this, his
observations confirm my convictions that our University must be the center of the
economic recovery of Puerto Rico. His biology-based way of analyzing systems clashed
in a spectacular fashion with my knowledge in the field of microeconomics. As plants,
systems must be nurtured, no branch must be neglected or the tree will wither.