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<span id="docs-internal-guid-779cc858-b9b3-5085-df74-eedbc7af4231"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UM doesn’t have a technology transfer office, but it has a policy regarding intellectual property. Everything made in the university belongs to it. However as a student you could ask for the intellectual property of a project before starting it. Then you would have to have a meeting and sign some paperwork.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-779cc858-b9b4-02b2-9360-4c48e60ec4e9"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The university has a wide range of partnerships with different industries and businesses. One of the main reasons for that, are the compulsory internships that each student has to make each summer</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">as a requisite in order to obtain their degree</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This gives the students a better picture of reality and forces them to evaluate their career and opportunities, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">at the same time their gain hands on experience and start forming their working network.</span>
<li><div>''<span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">INCLUSION:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not only we work from a place of multidisciplinarity, but also we intend that our successes reach those who are usually excluded and forgotten</span></span></span>''</div></li>
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<div><br/><span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Among the activities and methodologies offered, international and uruguayan participants got familiar with Design Thinking in order to empathise with users and identify their problems and challenges. In addition, participants applied Lego Serious Play, another innovative methodology, useful to generate solutions. Prototyping based on Lean Methodologies was also a key aspect that proved to be important during the testing phase with real users.</span></span></span></div></div></div>
== Regional and Local Economic Development ==