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<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Some of the courses offered are ‘Innovation "Innovation and Product Development’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 "Company and Customer’Customer", "Business Management", ‘Business Management’ and ‘Products and Services Design’.

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> 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 course ‘Biodesign’ is from the mandatory bioengineering curriculum. It is about the use of the 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 order to design the best software that fits with them.

On 2014, UTEC launched its executive education programmprogram, 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" stoods stands up. It offers the courses of "Specialization on User Experience and Service Design" and "Specializatión on StartUp Creation" which put in action the I&E theory into real business cases.<h4> <strong> Extracurricular Clubs & Activities</strong> </h4>

<h4> <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> Extracurricular Clubs entrepreneurship ecosystem. For that reason, SpinOut UTEC (before Comunidad I& Activities</strong> </h4>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 Fellows. 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 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 style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="colorSome means to diffuse these initiatives and organizations are the following: rgb(0‘Revista Piso 11, 0, 0)"> Another essential element we have at the university where news is the presence of change-maker shared with students who empower other students to develop an innovative scientific mindset through visual and spirit of curiosity needed to have a strong entrepreneurship ecosystem. For that reasonaudiovisual media, SpinOut UTEC (before Comunidad I&E UTEC) was born in 2016podcast, whose main mission is where students are interviewed to improve the know more about their experience in areas like I&E ecosystem in ; the social media managed by the university; and the region, starting with weekly Newsletter Enterate UTEC where students. This idea was born from the initiative of the first 4 peruvian University Innovation Fellows. They have been creating different workshops as micro classes, meetups with co-founders of Peruvian startups, speed-dating for startup ideas find out about opportunities and a program to train new trainers success stories in design thinking. There is also a student organization called ProUnity, which is focused on spreading information about business resources such as scrum, design thinking, project masterclasses, soft skills workshops I&E 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 innovationother areas.

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> 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 studetns find out about opportunities and success stories in I&E and other areas. On 2022, the Internationalization Office achieved its first successful group for the Tech Mission to Sillicon Silicon Valley, an effort to expose a group of students to one of the most innovatives innovative environments in the world. During 5 days, they got to network with engineers and innovation experts from companys companies such as Tesla, Google, Amazon, NASA, etc.

<p style="text-align: justify">As far as university-industry collaboration is concerned, UTEC has partnered with several companies, in order to prepare their students for real-life experience in the industry, through the development of projects between companies and students.  Moreover, such experiences are provided by UTEC Career Services and a specific space called “UTEC Networking”, which they created for allowing the exchange of knowledge between companies and students in order to bridge the gap between college and the workplace. This event has many components, such as career/company presentations, business/project talks, elevator pitches, company stands, an online employment fair, and the opportunity to meet and match people for any personal professional purpose such as getting a job, an internship, or some kind of network to develop projects. Also, UTEC has implemented projects with companies (known as "PI con Empresas") as part of the Interdisciplinary Project courses. These programs involve both UTEC professors and students, and representatives of the companies to implement different projects that are developed during the semester. Finally, there is one space called "Noches de Colaboraxion", an initiative led by the "Colaboratorio UTEC". These are a series of talks at night given to the student community that covers mainly I&E topics, these talks are given by professionals involved actively in the I&E and StartUp environment.