Fall 2017 Priorities:

Since some time, Universidad del Desarrollo has invested many resources to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship enviroment by building a place just ment for that and by creating an amazing ecosystem to all of the students and personel that work there. The most importante place called Plaza i, let student's gather and discuss problems or/and create projects to solve any type of problem they find in our campuses.

Even with all the great things our university has done to improve this ecosystem and to make students feel interest to be a part of it, the current I&E ecosystem is a little bit confusing and complicated. This makes it hard for students to feel there's a place where they can gather whenever they want and where they realize problems can be solved.

Those are the reasons why not every student is keen to this ecosystem and why not everyone knows about everything that is available on campus. Along with that, there are interdisciplinary activities missing where students can get more tools about I&E and put in practice what they already know about those subjects.

The priorities are to get to the students, make them close to the I&E ecosystem and let them use every opportunity that is available on campus to make them better at what they do everyday and to make them feel they have the space to become great problem solvers.

Strategy #1: I&E Web Page

The strategy consists in a webpage that connects all the I&E information on UDD's campus

On the first page one can access to other I&E related links (from campus), such as iCubo and dLab. Besides that, it has three main parts:

One: A section with every course about I&E available plus one I&E community section. There, students can meet with others and speak about their ideas.

Two:I&E community, where they can schedule meetings and attend to different activities in “Plaza i” and “Espacio i”.

Three: Ideas and projects. This part is divided in 4 sections. These sections are the different stages of every idea or project. The first one is for students that have only one idea that they want to develop.The second one is for ideas or projects that already started developing. The third section is for ideas or projects that are more advanced, and the last one is for ideas that are finished developing and want to start entrepreneuring (make them real).

In everyone of these sections, there are different key points available, such as funds, people to co-work with, counseling, programs, incubators, etc. All of this information well classified in order to make the students get to the info, and not get the info to the students (we all get emails, but no one really cares about them, and a lot of students do not know about all the available opportunities to become an entrepreneur or innovate).

The idea here, is to make it simple and friendly. From students, to students.

Tactic #1: Validate the idea

Present the web page to other students and faculty members in order to get feedback and see if it's necessary or not.

Tactic #2: Prototype

Test a quick prototype to see if the idea works and if it is interesting for students.

Tactic #3: Official permission

Talk to the people in charge, get the necessary permission and funds to start developing.

Tactic #4: Web page launch

Launch the page and advertise it amongst students.

Strategy #2: Create interdisciplinary activities in common areas

This strategy consists in creating monthly challenges in common areas of all the students at university so people of different majors compete together to complete I&E challenges.

Students will have the chance to participate in an innovation and entrepreneurship challenge once a month to gain a prize. Each challenge will be about different subjects that involve this concepts, and students from different majors will have to conform teams in order to complete them.

Challenges can last 10 minutes or a week and prices will vary depending on that.

The monthly challenges will help students in different aspects:

They will work in interdisciplinary groups. This will let students meet new people and work in future ideas that are not related in what they are used to do.
Students will have to test their abbility to listen and be patience on what others are proposing. This will let them gain more tools to use in their everyday.
Challenges will make the I&E ecosystem grow because it'll gain more popularity in the student community.

Tactic #1: Validate the idea.

Before doing anything, it'll be better to start presenting the idea to faculty members and people from iCubo to get validation and feedback.

Tactic #2: Test the idea.

The second step will be testing the idea in a common area to see if students get interested in participate on the challenge and to get feedback from them.

Tactic #3: Paperwork

Get the permission and support from the people who will help developing the project. Also, getting the funds or sponsorship to pay for the prices when need it.

Tactic #4: Ready to go!

Make the first activity for students in an innovative and creative way!

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