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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7b1-3043-7c15-16dab3054369">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>
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== University Technology Transfer Function ==
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7b1-3043-7c15-16dab3054369">UCU doesn't have a University Technology Transfer office but it is a specialist on the issue concerning intellectual property. Everything done in the university, belongs to them. So, if a student or a professor needs information they would need to ask for it.</span>
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7b1-3043-7c15-16dab3054369">University - Industry Collaboration</span> ==
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7b1-3043-7c15-16dab3054369">The UCU is facilitating their relation to the industry through NEXO, </span>National Agency of Research and Innovation (ANII) and the Cowork Santander. The Entrepreneur Development Center (NEXO) and The Center for Innovation and Engineering (CII) are where ideas materialize. As in the section Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurs, the students, graduates or postgraduates are guided and supported to develop their business ideas and start up. They foster the innovation and encourages the creation of vigorous companies centered in products or services.They help students with the first phase so as to present the prototype to National Agency of Research and Innovation (ANII) and to ANDE to finance it. ANDE is the acronym in spanish for the National Development Agency. Their purpose is to contribute in the economic development in Uruguay through efficient and transparent programs, with special emphasis on the promotion of micro, small and medium businesses. ANDE and ANII are important instruments in funding and UCU is assisting and helping students to acquire those fundings. Moreover NEXO also has various funds to gain seed capital to advance the idea into a reality.
<span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7b1-3043-7c15-16dab3054369">Also,</span> the university has partnerships with distinctive industries and businesses. Depending on the career, there are internships to help the students face reality, know how to interact with the work environment and assess their career.
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7b1-3043-7c15-16dab3054369">Regional and Local Economic Development</span> ==
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7b1-3043-7c15-16dab3054369">Uruguayan government is helping the startup industry flourish by implementing these institutions </span>National Agency of Research and Innovation (ANII) and National Development Agency (ANDE). Enhancing this, the Co work spaces and the special Centers dedicated in supporting students, postgraduates and graduates with an entrepreneurial spirit are an important base in the progress of the realization of ideas.
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== <span id="docs-internal-guid-ea94ca3d-a7b1-3043-7c15-16dab3054369">Writen By</span> ==
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[[Julieta_Caputo|Julieta Caputo]]
[[Sofía_Muñiz_Irazabal|Sofía Muñiz]]
[[Manuel_heslop|Manuel Heslop]]
[[Victoria_Ferrer|Victoria Ferrer]]
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