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== <span style="font-size:larger;">'''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship'''</span> ==
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 11pt; text-align: justify; padding: 0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-28a7089b-7fff-b2d7-97e7-35ed92378217"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Innovation has always been deeply embedded at the heart of the Universidad de los Andes. From the very core of the institution –it’s mission statement– can be seen to play a key role: “the University of the Andes is an autonomous, independent and </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">innovative </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance and respect for ideas [...]”</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 11pt; text-align: justify; padding: 0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-28a7089b-7fff-b2d7-97e7-35ed92378217"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Student innovation and entrepreneurship is highly endorsed in certain faculties, both inside and outside of the classroom. The Business and Design Schools are the leaders in the creation and implementation of I&E opportunities in the classroom, with the Industrial Engineering department trailing not far behind. More and more, courses and study programs have been modified in order to further interest and expose students to I&E. These courses teach students the importance of keeping their minds open to everything I&E has to offer, and help them harvest finer entrepreneurial skills. Some of these courses have students dedicate the whole semester’s work to developing a project of their choosing, while others expose them to real-life cases and make them think outside the box.</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 11pt; text-align: justify; padding: 0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-28a7089b-7fff-b2d7-97e7-35ed92378217"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even though most projects deviate and stay in just dreams, there are participation circles that step in to help student entrepreneurs. These include Empreandes, which helps them ideate </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a stronger and more innovative core at the beginning of their entrepreneurship , and </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centro de emprendimiento</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, where </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">certified mentors asses them with interactive workshops and business-oriented makerspace. Also, when students need guidance through their entrepreneurial process, big scale entrepreneurship accelerators like Despega Colombia, can help propel a student’s own particular idea.</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 11pt; text-align: justify; padding: 0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-28a7089b-7fff-b2d7-97e7-35ed92378217"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Universidad de Los Andes has a variety of tools and groups that promote students throughout the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship, and continue to support projects when these entrepreneurs become alumni.</span></span></span></span></p>
== '''<span style="font-size:larger;"><span styleface="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b557fce0-7fff-60fe-b2a6-19543b4a05a7"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weightsize: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline21.6px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurshipWe think better when we're together</span></spanfont></span></span>''' ==<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span>Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship Being the best is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Given Nevertheless, its long-established national renown as hunger of being the pioneer university in terms of R&D, it was just best has cost a matter of time before innovation and entrepreneurship ensued as a practice and became key to massive bad reputation on the faculty production at Los Andessociety around itself. At the moment, investigative portfolios the university has high standards of excellent education but it fails on showing how caring and academic production from human it can be with students. Some people reject the idea of being part of the faculty members is classified allegedly best university in one the country just because of 5 big topics that help its coldness and relationship with the nation at a macro level:student body. </span></span></span></p>#<span style="color:#696969rgb(105, 105, 105);"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arialJust because this university does not show how compromised it is with their students and their own well being,helvetica,sans-serif;">Neurosciencedoesn't mean it doesn't care about the students.</span></spanp></span>#<span p style="color:#696969;"><span style="fonttext-sizealign:mediumjustify;"><span style="font-familycolor:arialrgb(105,helvetica105,sans-serif105);">Gender studies</span></span></span>#<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Historic environmental analysis</span></span></span>#<span style="color:#696969rgb(105, 105, 105);"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style=What has just been said is affecting the univerisity's name nationally and is stopping great students to enter it. That's why we have decided to "font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;take the bullet">Investigations for peace</span></span></span>#<span style="colorour university and try to solve this social problematic. The solution is pretty simple but had an inmense impact if handled in the correct way:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Corruption</span></spanp></span><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p span style="text-aligncolor: justifyrgb(105, 105, 105);"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102105, 102105, 102105); font-variant-numericsize: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapmedium;">AdditionallySince we believe the people's voices are the reason why everything happens and how things evolve, we decided to not take for granted everybody's perception towards the University also provides teachers –not just students– university and make a plan of action once we count with practical tools to develop their profiles as entrepreneurs and innovatorswhat people think. For exampleIt doesn't matter if they are students or complete outsiders, many schools facilitate student-teacher contact every constructive critisism counts and courses in order to work on investigation related to their careers and interestswill help improve this university's prestige, so that we can be excellent academically, but also socially. Another example is </span><span /p><p style="backgroundtext-coloralign: transparentjustify; "><span style="color: rgb(102105, 102105, 102105); font-stylesize: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapmedium;">Conécta–TE</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102105, 102105, 102105); font-variant-numericsize: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapmedium;">(an entrepreneurship epicenter dedicated to innovation in education and technology), which offers With the course “Conecta-TE en Vacaciones”: an institutional initiative that seeks help of those who cared to provide the teachers answer our different kinds of surveys we did notice a pattern that indicates that the University fame of Los Andes with spaces this university is to design innovations that can be applied cold with students and deattached from their struggles, and way too attached and interested in their classesthe academical excellence.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102105, 102105, 102105); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Recently the Civil Now, what we are interested on creating is a massive impact so that everyone can see how invested La Universidad de Los Andes is regarding their student body well-being and Environmental engineering department decided to allow students happiness overall. We plan on doing that do not desire to finish their major with a formal thesis to join or continue in the research seedbed help of different activities that motivate those who feel good inside the campus to share their choice. This decision was made after student representaives made evident the negative impact a mandatory thesis had in students that perhaps have different interests than story and also those who don't feel as satisfied to also share what's going through their thesis advisors. Recent surveys have demonstrated that not only has head, because at the amount end of investigationthe day, therefore entrepreneurshipmany brains think better than one, increased but seniors in both majors have in their job perspectives stay in campus with their projectsand it is very clear that we all think better when we're together.</span></p>
== '''<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-44499432-7fff-0adf-e23c-265227f99e17"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Actively supporting the university technology transfer function</span></span></span> </span>''' ==
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 11pt; text-align: justify; padding: 0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6acc6dc9-7fff-d50b-7169-0ff04caaaae0"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Universidad de Los Andes is currently working on developing a strong Technology Transfer Office. At the moment, the university relies on the Office for Technology and Knowledge Transfer (OTTC, for its initials in Spanish) to carry out the functions of an institution with this reason of being. The OTTC currently encourages the members of the university to create patents, work with outside businesses with which the university holds alliances, and interact with non-profits and other organizations, in order to commercialize the different creations of the university’s student community’s leaders.</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 11pt; text-align: justify; padding: 0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6acc6dc9-7fff-d50b-7169-0ff04caaaae0"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unfortunately, most of the students have not been exposed to its dynamics and even its purpose, mostly because not everyone is interested in using this resource. Therefore, there is a lack of information regarding its existence. It is of great importance for the University to improve the reach and the acceptance of this program within the University environment.</span></span></span></span></p>
