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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, the university is offering an Innovation Minor, experiential and theory courses of I&E in different careers like Business, Engineering, Nursing, and Service Management (ADS school).  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.

UANDES Universidad de Los Andes 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 alliances. The upper named universities are the ones, which UANDES has as partners. For instance, Stanford University and their UIF ProgrammProgram. This chance was offered by  Innovation Direction, a faculty mentor, howeverdepartment in Uandes, engages students do not have a direct link nor acquaintance of these alliances. Nevertheless, the university has become more engaged with facilitating this, offering scholarships and project fundingfaculty I&E ideas and helps them grow and contact mentoring programs, legal source founding and academic support and the new innovation incubatorother help necessary to go to market.