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== Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b9b9-0680-75de-8012ae1ecec6"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of [http://www.initium.uy/ Initium]</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities. For example, this year was created Agents of Change, a group of students interested in innovation and entrepenuership, they meet every week with the help pf Romina Dominzain, former Fellow and part of Initium, to learn about Design Thinking, Life Design, communication and multiple skills valued in the area.</span></span> <span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or , </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Investment Projects , </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurial Initiative or </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Creativity and Innovation, or Entrepreneurial Initiative where students are working in a very interesting project for examplethe women's Prison of Montevideo.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Furthermore, the University has tried to increase the number of professors with and entrepreneurship background. As example of this, we have the coordinator of the Business Management degree. Her name is Maria Passadore, former worker of Endeavour and co-creator with Josefina Maisonnave, Initium Director, of “Pura”. This business is dedicated to the management of boutique hotels of less than 25 rooms. She, has been also working on providing students with useful skills for their future, that is why she has introduced new courses, such as Improvisation Workshops.</span>
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== University Technology Transfer Function ==