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<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> UTEC Ventures (a startup accelerator at UTEC) provides consulting on how to make an idea profitable. Founded in 2014, the accelerator offers investment and mentoring to startups. It has an incubator program every summer and also a program to prepare candidates who are interesting in postulate the incubator program, giving advice to them to explore the problem in which they are passionate.

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> In addition, there is the RLE core course which is about developing engineering projects that go hand to hand with research and the creation of technological solutions, committed to social needs and sustainability with companies of the future. There are three modalities: in collaboration with companies, research in the university with partners in other entities, and RLE of entrepreneurship. This last option provides an accurate guide to help students get their venture ready to scale, which includes standard methodologies for brainstorming, like design thinking, market research, problem validation, competitors analysis, business model identification, financial analysis, investment documents, and the elaboration of the final pitch.

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> The Office allows concentrating and maximizing resources towards the scientific and technological activity of the university. Proposals receive external funding and it almost has the contribution of the internal research grants with UTEC partners (Harvard, MIT, Cleveland Clinic, others) and projects with companies.