摘要：The future of the regions is guided by the holistic knowledge of the past and the actions of the present in order to outline the horizon to achieve the aimed purposes. In this sense, foresight becomes a tool for treating future situations by reducing uncertainty from the principles of strategic planning. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the development model requires a comprehensive vision of structural change, in which interdependencies between the political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, scientific and technological dimensions are evidenced through the transformative and productive entrepreneurship of contexts (Medina et al., 2014). On this matter, foresight arises from the need to plan institutional development, capacities to respond to the paradigms of the environment, promote productivity, innovation, close social gaps, and confront the transformations of the environment and cultural dynamics among other aspects. Therefore, entrepreneurship is promoted, starting from the application of foresight, as a development engine in order to reach a society of inclusion oriented towards equality, fairness, justice and efficiency of the different actors. In fact, social entrepreneurship, as well as the perception that has been maintained for decades on the methods of production, labor systems, sales, or other administrative processes, have been transcended borders, constituting a global topic interest, thinking and doing, according to trends, to constant changes in the needs of society, It is making business sustainability and cultural strengthening of new entrepreneurs more complex. In this way, the direction of social entrepreneurship from the prospective research is the essence of government policies to face poverty, health, education and housing problems in the research area; it is trying to find effective solutions that allow to focus on an integral development with a healthy coexistence in the region. In this regard, the purpose of this document is to approach the prospective analysis of social entrepreneurship in the development in Catatumbo, Norte de Santander, Colombia by exploring the characteristics of the context, in order to focus on scenarios and prospective events that identify lines of action to keep in mind in the department and national territorial development plans.
