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= <span style="font-size:large;">University - Industry Collaboration</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 they gain hands on experience and start forming their working work network.</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;">Initium has recently develop some entrepreneurship focus internships in different startups. This initiative not only gives the student the opportunity to experience a real work experience but also stimulates innovation and entrepreneurship at the same time.</span></span>
<div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another course that aims to give students the tools to find solutions to real problems is I-Lab. This is a 3 months long course where students form groups, and each group is assigned a different business with whom it has to work with in order to find solutions to the problem that each business is currently facing. All students learn to make use of the Design Thinking techniques and work together with students from all majors, both essential aspects regarding innovation.</span></div><div><br/></div><div>[[File:Labs.JPG|border|left|650x300px|Labs.JPG]]<br/></div><div>
<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] <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>
= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LOOP, Semana de la Innovación.</span></span></span><br/> =
