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<span id="docs-internal-guid-779cc858-b9b3-5085-df74-eedbc7af4231"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UM doesn’t have a technology transfer office, but it has a &nbsp;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></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-779cc858-b9b4-02b2-9360-4c48e60ec4e9"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The university has a wide range of partnerships with different industries and businesses. One of the main reasons for that, are the compulsory internships that each student has to make each summer</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">as a requisite in order to obtain their degree</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This gives the students a better picture of reality and forces them to evaluate their career and opportunities, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">at the same time their gain hands on experience and start forming their working network.</span>

<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-471b904d-233a-c264-f912-32070a6ccb99"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Josefina Maisonnave- Initium Director</span></span></span>

</div><div><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In some faculties there are research offices that offer students internships by helping professors in their investigations. Let’s take for example the </span>[https://www.linkedin.com/company/15086209?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos CINOI]&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Center of Innovation in Industrial Organization). It’s main objective is to form a stronger bond between the university and the business world, and it’s vision is to be a pioneer Center of Innovation and Applied Research in Industrial Organization in Latin America.</span></div><div><br/></div><div>

<div><br/><span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LOOP, Semana de la Innovación </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was a unique latin american experience that united visionary people, visionary students and visionary organizations worried about inclusion and making an impact in not only the continent, but also the world.</span></span></span></div><div><br/><span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As previously mentioned, LOOP is a community that aims for change, impact and inclusion in Latin America throughout innovation. The event sought to create spaces for inclusion and interdisciplinarity where the exchange of ideas and initiatives could happen and generate movement in our communities.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event had the support of and was organized by Universidad de Montevideo, Universidad Tecnológica, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Universidad CLAEH, and Universidad ORT.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The key concepts of the event were:</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">

<li><div>''<span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">INNOVATION:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We aim to add value to our communities and our society, to improve what already exists and to think outside the box</span></span></span>''</div></li>