==Promoting Student Innovation and entrepreneurship==
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is an increasing number of students who choose to become entrepreneurs at Universidad de Montevideo. To accompy this entreprenurial Spirit UM has created INITIUM. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an Innovation and entrepreneurship minaste. There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Investment Projects, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurial Initiative or </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Creativity and Innovation where students are working in a very interesting project for the women's Prison of Montevideo.</span>
==Encouraging faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship==
There is nothing the University does to encourage Innovation inside the Faculty.<br />
==University Technology Transfer Function==
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<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; 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>
== University Technology Transfer Function ==
<div>The UM does not have a technology transfer office.</div>
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