<p style="text-align: justify;">Universidad de Ingeniería & Tecnología (UTEC) is a private university located in Lima, Peru. UTEC boost education, innovation, research and development of the economy, based on the design of an educational model , aimed at the needs of the labor market and address the various problems of the XXI century. </p><p style="text-align: center;">[[File:Utec 2.jpg|frame|center|600px]] </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
= PROMOTING STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP =
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-712ca8be-240a-29e6-8472-b601fa1d269d"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The formative proposal of the University of Engineering & Technology (UTEC) integrates the specialized knowledge in engineering with the competences of management and innovation. The curricular plan considers, in addition to the subjects of the science and technology area, Humanities, management and innovation courses, which result in holistic training. Innovation is encouraged through events and presentations at UTEC Ventures, the business accelerator of UTEC, and competitions such as Disrupton (as a Hackaton focused on solving a problem within the University).</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;">[[File:Disrupton.jpeg|287x158px|Disrupton.jpeg]][[File:Hack2.jpeg|316x158px|Hack2.jpeg]]</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-712ca8be-240a-9127-b8c1-6c32403d6083"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UTEC Ventures holds events in order to promote I&E, like Global Startup Labs, GIST Startup Bootcamp, Peru Design Week, fiiS (International Festival for Social Innovation) and the 1776 Challenge Cup.As well, UTEC designs courses like Innovation International Program and Innovation Through Design are focused to especialización profesional. Students use spaces like Fablab, UTEC garage or the Product Design Laboratory to develop their projects. Some of them have develop collaborative projects with MIT, Harvard and Colorado School of Mines. On the other hand, something was born on 2016: Comunidad I&E UTEC whose main mission is to improve the I&E ecosystem in the regionstarting with UTEC student. This was born from the initiative of the first 4 peruvian University Innovation Fellows.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;">[[File:Profile4.png|border|center|400x500px|Profile4.png]]</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
= ENCOURAGING FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP =