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== <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></span>Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;padding:0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7cb-f947-1d50-950ad1a76d24"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are spaces in the University that encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, stimulating students to carry on with their passion and dreams to make them materialized, to make them real. Some of these spaces are:</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-indent: 36pt;text-align: justify;padding:0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7cb-f947-1d50-950ad1a76d24"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cowork Space by Universidad Católica with the support of Santander Bank. </span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The space allows students to meet to study and work on the development of common projects or </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ideas.</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;text-align: justify;padding:0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7cb-f947-1d50-950ad1a76d24"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nexo - Entrepreneur Development Center. </span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The objective of Nexo is to promote the realization of business ideas and start up of companies created by students, graduates and postgraduates of the Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU), offering a wide range of services and supports.</span><br/><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The service as a pre-incubator, includes collaboration in the design and development of business models of new enterprises through guidance as well as access to a support network for the start-up of the same, consultation and advice of experts in areas access to sources of funding. Its scope is for all the faculties of the UCU and the Network of Institutions to support the entrepreneurial activity.</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;padding:0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7cb-f947-1d50-950ad1a76d24">&nbsp;</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;text-align: justify;padding:0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7cb-f947-1d50-950ad1a76d24"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for Support to Business Innovation (CAIE). The support of the CAIE aims to reduce or eliminate the constraints that the entrepreneur encounters when transforming his innovative ideas. It is carried out through methodologies of simple application and high practical impact.</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;padding:0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7cb-f947-1d50-950ad1a76d24"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through the CAIE, the UCU offers companies support to improve their innovative capacity, through advice provided by highly experienced professionals and support to facilitate access to cofinancing by ANII.</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: justify;padding:0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7cb-f947-1d50-950ad1a76d24">&nbsp;</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;text-align: justify;padding:0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7cb-f947-1d50-950ad1a76d24"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Center for Innovation and Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering and Technologies (CII in Spanish) is a platform aimed for fostering the innovation and entrepreneurship skills of students, graduates and teachers. Since 2014, the CII in the UCU provides support and guidance to students with an entrepreneurial spirit in the different areas of Engineering; supports the development of technological projects with innovative potential, encouraging the rapprochement with the productive sector, and the creation of dynamic companies based on products or technological services by students.</span></span></span></span></p><div><br/></div>

== <span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7b1-3043-7c15-16dab3054369">University Technology Transfer Function</span> ==

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