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  <span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:small">Universidad de Ingeniería & Tecnología (UTEC) [https://utec.edu.pe/] is a private university located in Lima, Peru. UTEC boosts education, innovation, research and development of the economy, based on the design of an educational model that is aimed at the needs of the labor market and addresses the various problems of the XXI century.&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: center">[[File:Utec3.jpg|720x360px|Utec3.jpg|link=Special:FilePath/Utec3.jpg]]</p>    

<p style="text-align: justify"></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent">T</span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">he formative The constructive proposal of the University of Engineering & Technology (UTEC) integrates the specialized knowledge in Engineering scientific and technological areas with the competences competencies of management , humanities and innovation, which result in holistic training that further improves the professional value of our graduates. Innovation and entrepreneurship are encouraged on the campus through courses, extracurricular organizations and spaces where students become empowered to enhance their ideas.</span></span> <h4> <strong> I&E Courses </strong> </h4><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">Some of the courses offered are "Innovation and Product Development", in which students explore the design thinking methodology and other techniques to apply in the development of a real product. Three classes focus on business management and entrepreneurship: "Company and Customer", "Business Management", and ‘Products and Services Design’. Finally, there is a course called "Entrepreneurs in Action" where students work on identifying needs and improvement opportunities and implementing solutions in a real business.</span></span> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">Some courses don’t have a specific component of I&E because they are related to core areas, but students are required to go through an innovative process to develop a solution. The curricular plan considerscourse ‘Biodesign’ is from the mandatory bioengineering curriculum. It is about the use of design in order to create a solution to a specific problem following the steps of Design Thinking with biomedicine or biotechnology. Another course called ‘Information Systems’ gives students of Computer Science the opportunity to discover a specific problem that requires technology to be solved. For that, it is necessary to empathize with the objective public in addition order to design the subjects best software that fits them.</span></span> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">On 2014, UTEC launched its executive education program, which is an educational proposal of professional specialization whose core axes are innovation, data, agility, and technology. Among its 7 schools, the "Academy of Innovation and Omniquality" stands up. It offers the scientifical courses "Specialization on User Experience and technological areaService Design" and "Specializatión on StartUp Creation" which put in action the I&E theory into real business cases.</span></span><br /><h4> <strong> Extracurricular Clubs & Activities</strong> </h4> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, Humanities0, Management 0); font-size: small">Another essential element we have at the university is the presence of change-maker students who empower other students to develop an innovative scientific mindset and spirit of curiosity needed to have a strong entrepreneurship ecosystem. For that reason, SpinOut UTEC (before Comunidad I&E UTEC) was born in 2016, its main mission is to improve the I&E ecosystem in the region, starting with UTEC students. This idea was born from the initiative of the first 4 Peruvian University Innovation coursesFellows. They have been creating different workshops such as micro classes, meetups with co-founders of Peruvian startups, speed-dating for startup ideas, and a program to train new trainers in design thinking. There is also a student organization called ProUnity, which result is focused on spreading information about business resources such as scrum, design thinking, project masterclasses, soft skills workshops, and PMO consulting. In addition, on 2021 students from different careers created IISE, a chapter of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering that seeks to promote research considering innovation.</span></span> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">Some means to diffuse these initiatives and organizations are the following: ‘Revista Piso 11, where news is shared with students through visual and audiovisual media, UTEC podcast, where students are interviewed to know more about their experience in areas like I&E; the social media managed by the university; and the weekly Newsletter Enterate UTEC where students find out about opportunities and success stories in I&E and other areas.</span></span> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">On 2022, the Internationalization Office achieved its first successful group for the Tech Mission to Silicon Valley, an holistic effort to expose a group of students to one of the most innovative environments in the world. During 5 days, they got to network with engineers and innovation experts from companies such as Tesla, Google, Amazon, NASA, etc.</span></span> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">The Student Welfare department has implemented a series of training sessions for students involved in its different programs, most of these training sessions include skills within the I&E environment, soft, and leadership skills. Two of the most known are the training sessions for students involved in student organizations, called Leadership Summit, and the training for students in the Peer and Academic mentor programs.</span></span>  <strong>Maker Spaces </strong> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">We have the UTEC Ventures accelerator, which years ago held events in order to promote I&E, like Global Startup Labs, GIST Startup Bootcamp, Peru Design Week, and the 1776 Challenge Cup. Nowadays, the accelerator performs certain activities under selection processes such as PreIncUVa, where students have the opportunity to discover a problem and work around it to develop a Business Model, and IncUVA which is an incubation program that further improves allows students to search for the product-market fit of their solution. All the projects are presented in a Demo Day, open to all the students, to show the professional value progress of our graduatesall the entrepreneurship incubated.</span></span> <br /> <p style="text-align: justify"></p><p style="text-align: center">[[File:Disrupton.jpeg|287x158px|Disrupton.jpeg|link=Special:FilePath/Disrupton.jpeg]][[File:Hack2.jpeg|316x158px|Hack2.jpeg|link=Special:FilePath/Hack2. jpeg]]</p><p style="text-align: justify"></p><p style="text-align: justify"></p> ===<big><span style="color:cornflowerblue">Encouraging faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></big>===<p style="text-align: justify"></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">UTEC is encouraged committed to encourage professors and staff to engage in entrepreneurship and innovation. They support their endeavors outside of school and make sure to let the students know about it as well. It is important for the students to feel inspired by their school faculty so they might follow in their footsteps. The two main ways our university has done this is by implementing faculty-led projects and research centers on different topics relevant to them. </span></span> <h4> <strong> Interdisciplinary Projects </strong> </h4> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Faculty are supported to be entrepreneurial or commercialize their research by programs such as the Interdisciplinary Project core course. The projects are based on teachers proposing an idea that can be an Initiation, Scientific Research or Development of a Product / Service. Students browse through events dozens of projects and are free to choose the project in which they are interested.  <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Students from different majors spend a whole semester working as a team, putting their ingenuity into action and exploring these real-world problems that the teachers proposed to research, design, prototype and solve them with innovative solutions, as the name itself of the course, in an interdisciplinary way. These projects need to be developed following design thinking, user-centered design, and research methodologies. At the end of the semester, there is a contest for all the students enrolled in the course to demonstrate the creative process and the progress as teamwork that is the final result of their project. Finally, there is a contest, called Demo Day UTEC, where the most outstanding projects earn funds to be carried on and presentations enter the market. <h4> <strong> Research Centres as a catalyst </strong> </h4> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">There is a high quantity of teachers at UTEC which include that are also researchers from any of the six research centres of the university. These different centers enrich the students’ experience by encouraging them to explore their innovative and entrepreneurial potential. They are the following: <ul><li> ''Cement and Concrete Research Center'' </li><li> ''Heritage Research and Conservation Center'' </li><li> ''Water Technology and Research Center (CITA)'' </li><li> ''Center for Impact and Social Responsibility (CIRSO)'' </li><li> ''Bioengineering Research Center'' </li><li> ''Sustainable Computing Research Center (ComSust)'' </li></ul> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">The school also sends e-mails and makes sure to celebrate the achievements of teachers, even outside of the university. Commonly, students know their teachers’ expertise area and the projects they are involved in because students can see in the newsletters how the projects are going forward and have the desire to join them.  <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">On some occasions, opportunities are given from teachers for students to get involved as well in the projects that are developing. It could be having the role of research assistant, investigating more deeply in the literature, helping in the prototyping or even getting the motivation and resources to do a research paper.  [[File:Demoutec.jpg| thumb|center| Demo DaysMode UTEC|750x750px|link=Special:FilePath/Demoutec.jpg]] ===<big><span style="color:cornflowerblue">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function</span></big>===<p style="text-align: justify"></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">At UTEC, the Legal Division Advice is always looking for the security of the student’s or faculty member’s ideas. Also, there are some programs that promote turning technologies into business opportunities that can benefit society. </span></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent"></span></span> <h4><strong> UTEC Ventures </strong> </h4> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, Company Talks0)"> UTEC Ventures (a startup accelerator at UTEC) provides consulting on how to make an idea profitable. Founded in 2014, different workshopsthe accelerator offers investment and mentoring to startups. It has an incubator program every summer and also a program to prepare candidates who are interesting in postulate the incubator program, etcgiving advice to them to explore the problem in which they are passionate. <h4><strong> RLE course </strong> </h4> <spanstyle="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> In addition, there is the RLE core course which is about developing engineering projects that go hand to hand with research and the creation of technological solutions, committed to social needs and sustainability with companies of the future. There are three modalities: in collaboration with companies, research in the university with partners in other entities, and RLE of entrepreneurship. This last option provides an accurate guide to help students get their venture ready to scale, which includes standard methodologies for brainstorming, like design thinking, market research, problem validation, competitors analysis, business model identification, financial analysis, investment documents, and the elaboration of the final pitch. <h4><strong> University Research Area </strong></h4> <spanstyle="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> The Office allows concentrating and maximizing resources towards the scientific and technological activity of the university. Proposals receive external funding and it almost has the contribution of the internal research grants with UTEC partners (Harvard, MIT, Cleveland Clinic, others) and projects with companies.

<span p style="fonttext-familyalign:tahoma,geneva,sansjustify"></p><p style="text-serifalign: center"> [[File:UV.jpeg|900x250px|UV.jpeg|link=Special:FilePath/UV.jpeg]] </p><span p style="fonttext-sizealign: smalljustify"><span /p><p style="colortext-align: rgb(0, 0, 0)justify">In another hand, we have the UTEC Ventures accelerator, which holds events in order to promote I&E, like Global Startup Labs, GIST Startup Bootcamp, Peru Design Week, and the 1776 Challenge Cup. As well, UTEC has design courses, like Innovation International Program and Innovation Through Design, which are focused in professional specialization. </p>

Students use spaces like Fablab, UTEC garage or the Product Design Laboratory to develop their projects. Some of them have developed collaborative projects with MIT===<span style="color:cornflowerblue"><big>Facilitating university-industry collaboration:</big></span>===<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family:tahoma, Harvard and Colorado School of Mines. On the other handgeneva, something was born in 2016sans-serif"><span style="font-size: Comunidad I&E UTECsmall"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, whose main mission is to improve 0)">ting and maximizing resources towards the I&E ecosystem in scientific and technological activity of the region, starting with UTEC studentsuniversity. This idea was born from Proposals receive external funding and it almost has the initiative contribution of the first 4 peruvian University Innovation Fellows.internal research grants with UTEC partners (Harvard, MIT, Cleveland Clinic, others) and projects w </p><p style="text-align: justify"></p>

Nowadays====UTEC Networking====<span style="font-family:tahoma, geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">In regards to collaboration between the ways students can learn about I&E around the campus university and businesses, UTEC has grown that we have a Student Club called "Revista Piso 11" where news are shared so formed partnerships with various companies to better prepare its students can get to know what is going onfor real-world industry experience by engaging them in projects with these companies.

</span></span></span><p style="textfont-alignfamily: justifytahoma,geneva,sans-serif"></p><p span style="textfont-alignsize: centersmall">[[File:Disrupton.jpeg|287x158px|Disrupton.jpeg]][[File:Hack2.jpeg|316x158px|Hack2.jpeg]][[File:FirmaCIE.png]][[File:Piso11.png|316x158px|File:Piso11.png]]</p><p span style="text-aligncolor: justifyrgb(0, 0, 0)"></p><p style=Similarly, the Career Services department is responsible for preparing students who wish to deliver an "'''Elevator Pitch'''"textin front of the companies participating in UTEC Networking. As a result of this, students who match the company's desired qualifications are often recruited as pre-align: justify"></p>professional interns.

===<big><span style="color:blue">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function</span></big>===<p style="text-align: justify"></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="backgroundfont-colorsize: transparentsmall">T</span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">At UTEC, the Legal Division Advice is always looking for the security of the student’s or faculty member’s ideas. In additionMoreover, UTEC Ventures (a startup accelerator at UTEC) provides consulting in how to make an idea profitable.&nbsp;Founded in 2014, the accelerator offers investment and mentoring to startups. In this year, they have included a mentorship program called "Aprende con UV" to mentor prospect student startups to get incubated. UV follows the pillar of entrepreneurship raised by the university. The University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) is developing the engineering of event enables interviews between companies of the future. An engineering that goes hand to hand with research and the creation of technological solutions, committed to social needs and sustainability. In another handall students who express interest, as UTEC has recently created the "Ventures and Innovation Department" that will now cover this area offers on-campus facilities for in the university.</span></span></span></span></span><p style="text-align: justify"></p><p style="text-align: center"> [[File:UVperson '''interviews.jpeg|900x250px|UV.jpeg]] </p><p style="text-align: justify"></p><p style="text-align: justify"></p>'''

<p style="text-align: justify"></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="backgroundfont-colorsize: transparentsmall">T</span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">As wellOn the flip side, UTEC has implemented introduced projects in collaboration with companies (known , referred to as&nbsp; "VLI PI con empresasEmpresas,"), this program involves both which are integrated into the Interdisciplinary Projects courses. These initiatives engage UTEC professors and , students, and company representatives in the execution of the companies to implement different various projects that are developed during throughout the semester.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Lastly, there's a program known as "Noches y mañanas de Colaboraxion," driven by the "'''Colaboratorio UTEC [https://www.linkedin.com/company/colaboratorio-utec/]'''." It comprises a series of evening lectures open to the student community, primarily focusing on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) topics. These sessions are conducted by professionals actively involved in the I&E and Startup landscape.<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent"></span></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent"></span></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent"></span></span><br />===<big><span style="color:bluecornflowerblue">Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts</span></big>===<p style="text-align: justify"></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#000000">The Ministry of Production (known as Produce) is the most important public entity in promoting innovation in our country. One of their initiatives is StartUp Perú, which aims to promote the emergence and consolidation of new Peruvian companies that offer innovative products and services with high technological content. It consists of a set of contests and ways of financing for entrepreneurs, companies at an early age, and incubators. StartUp Perú also provides a platform for meetings and collaboration with people in the startup community in the country.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#000000">The Ministry, through the National Innovation Program for Competitiveness and Productivity (Innóvate Perú), seeks to increase business productivity by strengthening the actors' ecosystem of innovation (companies, entrepreneurs and supporting organizations) and to facilitate the interaction between them. It is also part of the National Productive Diversification Plan. As an university that looks to improve its I&E environment, we need to stay in touch with the government. Staying connected to the social reality and requirements of our country may be ensured by attending the big plans of it.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#000000">Another popular entity promoting innovation is Hackspace: a physical place where people with interests in science, new technologies, and digital or electronic art can meet, socialize and collaborate. It can be seen as a laboratory open to community where people from different backgrounds can join. The purpose of a hackspace is to concentrate resources and expertise to promote research and development.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center">[[File:Hackspace2.jpg|702x300px|Hackspace2.jpg]]</p><p style|link="text-alignSpecial: center"><FilePath/p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center">Hackspace2.jpg]]</p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p>

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===<big><span style="color:bluecornflowerblue">Related Links</span></big>===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Ingenieria_Student_Priorities UTEC Students Priorities<br />] '''Change Story Video (2023):''' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnUT2aA3xAo '''Change Story Video (2021):''' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVjVaTeMot4&feature=youtu.be '''Change Story Video (2020):''' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qZMyohnRlU&feature=youtu.be [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Ingenieria_Student_Priorities <span style="font-size:small;"></span>UTEC Students Priorities<br />]

[[Fellow:Josué Mauricio Arriaga Colchado]] [[Fellow:Alexandra Patricia Cueva Meza]] [[Fellow:Sofia Giuca]] <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> '''Spring 20162022 Fall Cohort:'''</span> [[Fellow:Lesly Patiño|Lesly Patiño Quispe]] [[Fellow:Hector Garcia|Hector Garcia]] [[Fellow:Stephanie Peralta|Stephanie Peralta]] Maria Andrea Gonzales

[http<span style="font-size:small">'''2021 Fall Cohort:'''<//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Danae_Chipoco_Haro Danae Chipoco Haro]span>

[http[Fellow://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hans_Figueroa_Guaylupo Hans Figueroa GuaylupoGrecia Delgado Espinoza]]

[http[Fellow://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alvaro_Ludowieg_Rios Alvaro Ludowieg RiosMacarena Oyague Santolalla]][[Category:Universities]][[Category:Schools]][[Category:Universidad_de_Ingenieria_&_Tecnologia]][[Fellow:Mia Townsend Ku]]

[http[Fellow://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Hurtado_Hidalgo Sebastián Hurtado HidalgoNadia Odaliz Chamana Chura]]

<span style="font-size:small">'''2020 Fall 2017Cohort:'''</span>

[httphttps://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Camila_Maura Camila MauraFellow:Marcela_Yeckle Marcela Yeckle]

[httphttps://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ariane_Ernandorena Ariane ErnandorenaFellow:Mirella_Rivas_Pelizzoli Mirella Rivas]

[httphttps://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Vidaurrazaga Gonzalo VidaurrrazagaFellow:Thal%C3%ADa_Marycielo_Leyton_Reto Thalía Leyton]

[httphttps://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Diego_Muñoz Diego MuñozFellow:Valeria_Aguayo Valeria Aguayo]

<span style="font-size:small">'''2018 Fall 2018Cohort:'''</span>