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= Overview<br/> =
<p style="text-align: justify">UTEC is the Technological University of Uruguay, is the Uruguayan public university of higher technological education, recognized nationally and internationally for its commitment to the continuous improvement of quality, equal opportunities, and the innovative capacity of its educational and applied research offering, with people with a profile in innovation and entrepreneurship. Also making an economic development at the local, national and international level, through collaborations with national and international institutions from the scientific world, from companies from the public and the private sector and the community.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Currently, UTEC has three Institutes throughout the country, bringing higher education to the rural areas, thus making equalizing the opportunities of the countryside and the capital, place where have been residing all the universities of the country until now.</p>
[[File:Utec-1421416497334.jpg|border|Utec-1421416497334.jpg]] <parsererror>Error de lectura XML: mal formado Ubicación: http://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Universidad_Tecnol%C3%B3gica_del_Uruguay_(UTEC)&action=edit§ion=2 Número de línea 1, columna 149:<sourcetext><body xmlns:x="http://excel"><h1>Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship<br/></h1><p>At UTEC, there can be found many workshops focused on� innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as in undergraduate courses, especially in science classes, the teachers encourage the students to innovate and have a more entrepreneurial view of the projects.</p><p>But, the principal promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship happens in October, in the Innovation Week:</p><p><img _fck_mw_type="border" class="fck_mw_border fck_mw_right" _cke_saved_src="Folleto.png" _fck_mw_filename="Folleto.png" src="/images/2/28/Folleto.png"/></p><p>In this event, many companies from the public and private sector join forces alongside the international Finnish university JAMK and other higher education institutions from Uruguay and local high schools in order to promote innovation within its students and creating an impact in the community as well.</p></body> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------^</sourcetext></parsererror>
= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship =