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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span>[http://www.um.edu.uy/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">University of Montevideo</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">(</span>]<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">UM) </span>started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more.</span></span>

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== Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

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<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;">Among the activities and methodologies offered, int<span style="font-size:medium;">ernati</span>onal and uruguayan participants got familiar with Design Thinking in order to empathise with users and identify their problems and challenges. In addition, participants applied Lego Serious Play, another innovative methodology, useful to generate solutions. Prototyping based on Lean Methodologies was also a key aspect that proved to be important during the testing phase with real users.</span></span></span></div>

= Regional and Local Economic Development =

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