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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span>Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Given its long-established national renown as the pioneer university in terms of R&D, it was just a matter of time before innovation and entrepreneurship ensued as a practice and became key to the faculty production at Los Andes. At the moment, investigative portfolios and academic production from the faculty members is classified in one of 5 big topics that help the nation at a macro level:</span></span></span></p><ol p style="margintext-topalign:0ptjustify;margin"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span></span></span><br/></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-bottomserif;"><span style="color:0pt#696969;"><span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additionally, the University also provides teachers –not just students– with practical tools to develop their profiles as entrepreneurs and innovators. For example, many schools facilitate student-teacher contact and courses in order to work on investigation related to their careers and interests. Another example is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conécta–TE</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(an entrepreneurship epicenter dedicated to innovation in education and technology), which offers the course “Conecta-TE en Vacaciones”: an institutional initiative that seeks to provide the teachers of the University of Los Andes with spaces to design innovations that can be applied in their classes.</span></span></span></olp>