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Felipe Alfonzo is a 3rd generation UIF in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. He is a Marketing Undergrad with a passion for helping innovations come to market. His has been able to put his marketing knowledge to use in very different work experiences from developing commercialization programs to web development. Further interest include macroeconomics, small business development,and entrepreneurship.

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The problem identified is that: Ideas arriving for incubation in our university's entrepreneurial programs, in their majority, are not innovation based or mature enough.

~~&nbsp~~In my process of discovery as a UIF candidate I learned that: A key problem identified is that: Ideas arriving for incubation in our university's entrepreneurial programs, in their majority, are not innovation based or mature enough.

I believe this is occurring because: The I&E ecosystem's idea generation efforts are still in development.

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This is a problem because: This step directly affects the amount of successful startups produced by the innovation pipeline in our university.

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I plan to: Promote a better ideation process for a more mature innovation pipeline in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.

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This will be done through:

<li>This will be done by developing eventssimilar to weekend ideation bootcamps</li>

<li>Developing communitiesand programsrelated to innovative industries through which students can gain knowledge on these industries and the technologies disrupting it.</li>

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~~ ~~ In conclusion I wish to: Expose more student to industry-oriented innovation to enable a more mature ideation process. I believe this will 1) give more unified direction to the efforts of the internal innovation pipeline in Idea Platform and 2) drastically help more successful startups develop in our I&E Ecosystem not only at a campus level but Island-wide~~ ~~

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I'm the current president of the biggest I&E student association in our university, '''Idea Platform'''.

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This is a committed group of students led communities able to contribute to their community through

Types of Communities

<li>Technical knowledge - Resourcer and tool to enable innovation(Making and coding)</li>

<li>Industry Innovation - Currently working on this component of the pipeline to increase the probability of student developing mature ideas for startups.(Biomedical, Fintech, Cosmetics and Virtual Reality)</li>

Innovation Spaces:

<li>E.P.I.C. Makespace - We developed and currently manage the first Makerspace in the UPR system. This makerspace is accesible to students of all disciplins with resources and equipment for students intrested in anything from making to startup ideation.</li>

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<li>We developed collaborative office spaces for starups</li>

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I'm currently developing a community related to the field of Fintech, UPRM Fintech.

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'''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">This developing community was started by a student who is part of Stanford’s d.school UIF program. The University Innovation Fellowship objective is for students to develop high impact initiatives relating to topics of innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E). While developing a landscape study of the I&E ecosystem of the UPRM we saw a necessity for communities, programs, and events that promote industry-focused innovation.'''

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