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= <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Promoting student Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Encouraging Faculty Innovation and entrepreneurship. Actively Supporting the university technology transfer function. Facilitating University - Industry collaboration. Engaging With regional and local economic development efforts.</font><br/> =
UNAN has become known as the Innovation University in Latin America. For ten years, the faculty has participated in an annual Innovation Workshop.The faculty of the ca. 40,000 student body has integrated the teachings of problem solving, design thinking in their curriculum on campuses around Nicaragua. The Rector of the university has been promoting innovation on all levels, and the results have become more and more visible.
= <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and entrepreneurship. </font><br/> =
A committee of faculty members from all campuses has been established. They meet regularly to review individual campus activities, to share methods, and to promote innovation and entrepreneurship. Individual faculty have become mentors and guide others, demonstrating their success in becoming entrepreneurs.
= <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Actively Supporting the university technology transfer function. </font><br/> =
TIC, the UNAN technology group has been active in the annual innovation workshops and making all efforts to integrate and apply technology throughout the processes. Mobile technology is being applied to field research, user empathy surveys, early 3D technology is being prototype modeling.
= <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Facilitating University - Industry collaboration. </font><br/> =
The need to collaborate with industry is a growing effort and is being developed in the disciplines of health, health care, nutrition, engineering. Some campuses start to work with industry to share user research, technology developments, establish maker labs.
= <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Engaging With regional and local economic development efforts.</font> =
Each region of Nicaragua is very different and provides different regional and local development efforts. Managua is the central business hub. In the outlying areas, campus activities include the communities and address local issues such as water, agriculture, climate change. UNAN established a program UNICAM to include the rural students, who learn entrepreneurship and problem solving thinking in weekend classes. These very often involve people from the mayor's office to farmers.
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