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== Overview ==

The [http://www.um.edu.uy/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">University of Montevideo (](UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more.

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It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. To be legally approved as a national university it was demanded the existence of three areas of knowledge, these were:

Actually the UM offers 20 different majors for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the schools listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking and it is among the 500 best Universities in the world.

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== Student Entrepreneurship ==

[[BJORN|BJØRN]] is the first Uruguayan watch design brand in the international market. The project suported by Initum was founded by Alejandro González and Jerónimo Acosta, former students of the Business and Economis School of the UM in response to the high prices of the watch industry, especially focusing on the fact that millennials do not have large revenues for this type of luxury.In March 2017, BJØRN launched its first product through Kickstarter, managing to pre-sell almost US $ 20,000 in 22 different countries.

Their products differ from their competition in large part by their price, but what stands out most is that each watch comes with 2 easily interchangeable meshes, so that its users can use the same watch several times and with multiple outfits, thus having several watches in one. In addition, BJØRN is the first watch brand in the local market to offer a lifetime warranty on all its watches and donates 10% of its revenue to local social projects.</div><div>[[File:Bjorn.png]]                                              </div>

== Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of [http://www.initium.uy/ Initium]. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities. For example, this year was created Agents of Change, a group of students interested in innovation and entrepenuership, they meet every week with the help pf of Romina Dominzain, former Fellow and part of Initium, to learn about Design Thinking, Life Design, communication and multiple skills valued in the area.

There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs, Investment Projects, Entrepreneurial Initiative or Creativity and Innovation where students are working in a very interesting project for the women's Prison of Montevideo.

Last but not least, this year a new departement of Campus Life was created, they manage sports, extra curricular activities, volunteering and every aspect of our lives inside the University. Even though it is very new, it has accomplished many things already such as the creation of new clubs, the Laboral week which consists on a week full of events hosted by companies to better ourselves in the work environment and learn skills for our futures.

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Z-room at the main building

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== University Technology Transfer Function ==

<~~span id="docs-internal-guid-779cc858-b9b3-5085-df74-eedbc7af4231"~~div> </div>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.~~~~

= University - Industry Collaboration =

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</div><div>In some faculties there are research offices that offer students internships by helping professors in their investigations. Let’s take for example the [https://www.linkedin.com/company/15086209?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos CINOI] (Center of Innovation in Industrial Organization). It’s main objective is to form a stronger bond between the university and the business world, and it’s vision is to be a pioneer Center of Innovation and Applied Research in Industrial Organization in Latin America.</div><div> </div><div></div>

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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/%C3%89dina_Mendiondo Édina Mendiondo]

~~[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Sanchez Rodrigo Sanchez]</div>~~

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Sanchez Rodrigo Sanchez]

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