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Today at Universidad de los Andes there are two powerful organisms with the function of promoting innovation and entrepreneurship. In the first place there is the “Centro de Innovación Docente” (“Faculty Innovation Center”), which provides financing and support to teachers that have a project in mind, so they can develop it. As there is this support for teachers they are the ones who participate and live mostly I&E activities at the University. For this reason, these two topics are more promoted around faculty members than students. On the other hand, there is the CIIB (Centro en Innovación e inteligencia Biomédica) (“Biomedical intelligence and Innovation Center”) where students can carry out projects if they’re coursing a science or health degree. Although students have developed great social projects at the University, these are aimed at helping people rather than innovation itself. Therefore there are projects and students with the ability to create but not necessarily from innovation or entrepreneurship. The University also has the first place in Chilean innovation, but this award has been allocated to the university as an institution. So this means the university by itself is innovative, but not necessarily its students.
The technological transfer is defined as a concept where “Research transforms money into knowledge … technology transfer transforms knowledge into money.” [([ https://ec.europa.eu/knowledge4policy/technology-transfer/what-technology-transfer_en|(Geoffrey Nicholson, father of the Post-It])]].” Universidad de los Andes encourages this technological support only to those who have engineering and business courses (lab, external projects, etc). Those who are not focused on these particular studies do not receive this support. However they tend to always keep up to date with their technology to promote and enhance even more each student's knowledge. Furthermore Universidad de los Andes has reached out to different colleges around the world and has, throughout the years, developed partnerships that embrace innovation in campus. To name a few we have from Belgium, Australia, Canada, Spain, United Kingdom, New Zealand and many more.
UANDES promotes an innovative ecosystem through external relations. Nevertheless, students do not have any knowledge of it, nor exploit the opportunity they may provide in order to enhance I&E in the campus. One example of it is the huge number of international relations the institution has to establish innovative alianzes. The upper named universities are the ones, which UANDES has as partners. For instance, Stanford University and their UIF Programm. This chance was offered by a faculty mentor, however students do not have direct link nor acquaintance of this alianzes.