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Companies in Santiago, Chillán, Puerto Varas and Temuco joint the projects presented by the Universidad de La Frontera to the Voucher Program of CORFO and Regional Prototype. It is an investment of more than 166 thousand Chilean pesos.

Eleven UFRO researchers, who are conscious that innovation is important for the future of Chile, sent their projects to the CORFO competition in order to introduce improvement in national companies that want to provide better service for the community.

Soil improvement, recycled concrete blocks development, electricity generation, lanolin extraction, surveillance systems and prototype generation are some of the ideas by the researchers of our institution. It is an investment of more than 166 thousand Chilean pesos that will help to introduce research, development and innovation (R&D&I) to regional companies.

The director of Innovation and Technology Transfer (DITT), Claudina Uribe, states that this as a confirmation of the work they outlined in 2017. “This is the result of a strategic plan that has to do with our cooperation with the companies. We wanted them to have the confidence to reach out to the research units of the UFRO and to ask for our researchers to participate in technological solutions that respond to their needs.”

EFFECTIVE LINKS

With the aim of strengthening the links of the UFRO with the socio-productive medium, DITT wants to contribute to the relation between science and companies, support entrepreneurship, local and regional innovation, processes of licensing and the participation and collaboration with associated R&D&I entities.

“We could observe that the productive sector has been sensitized with regard to the importance of knowledge, since the companies understood that innovation is important for a competitive advantage. In this regard, our task is to support the researchers, so they can work successfully in this cooperation between science and companies”, she pointed out.


PROGRAM OF COOPERATION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND COMPANIES

The Program of Cooperation between Science and Companies was created in 2017. Its main objective is to increase the number of companies that develop R&D&I projects and the rate of postulated and awarded projects with regional companies.

Some of the actions of operationalization of this program are prepared under the initiative called “Innovation Communities”, in which different public institutions and groups of businessmen come together with academic staff members of the university. This does not only show the capabilities but also successful experiences of cooperation, through projects and services, presented by the businessmen themselves to their peers.
328 companies with potential to work with the university have been identified and 42 alliances could be determined.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES
Agroindustrial Milagros - Temuco
Patio de Recreo - Temuco
Asesorías Genera Ltda. - Temuco
Ricardo Salazar - Chillán
Andes Nutraclinic - Santiago
Comercial Patagonia Market Limitada- Temuco
EudemoniHouse - Temuco
NovaSeed - Puerto Varas
Pizarrón del Profe – Temuco
Bioinnova SPA - Temuco
Mario Morales EIRL - Santiago

 

INNOVATION VOUCHER

The initiative wants the companies to develop solutions for challenges they cannot confront themselves, through the cooperation with knowledge providers, such as universities, research centers and others who are specialized in projects of punctual innovation and initial complexity.

WINNERS

INNOVATION VOUCHER CORFO

Director: Marcela Calabi

Project title: Development of an organomineral substrate based on mushroom compost, capable of improving the soil quality for ornamental plant propagation and cultivation.

Company: Agroindustrial Milagros

BIOREN

Amount awarded: 7.780.000 Chilean pesos

 

Director: Juan Pablo Cárdenas

Project title: Development of a low-cost concrete block on the basis of recycled rubber and glass.

Company: Andrés Gutiérrez Santibáñez

Faculty of Engineering and Science

Amount awarded: 7.780.000 Chilean pesos

 

Director: Boris Pavés

Project title: Development of a playground for children and teenagers that generates its own power.

Company: Patio de Recreo

Amount awarded: 8.400.000 Chilean pesos

 

Director: Jorge Díaz

Project title: Design, development and implementation of a computer system of comprehensive transportation business management.

Company: Asesorías Genera Ltda.

Faculty of Engineering and Science

Amount awarded: 7.780.000 Chilean pesos

 

Director: Gustavo Ciudad

Project title: Design of a lanolin extraction process from sheep´s wool from the center and south of Chile.

Company: Ricardo Salazar

Faculty of Engineering and Science

Amount awarded: 7.780.000 Chilean pesos

 

Director: Francisca Acevedo

Project title: Design, development of a hydrogel face mask based on Ulmoplus to prevent wrinkles.

Company: Andes Nutraclinic

Faculty of Medicine

Amount awarded: 7.780.000 Chilean pesos

 

Director: Fernando Huenupán

Project title: Development and implementation of a surveillance system for truck fleets, through the use of drones integrated into the truck cabin.

Company: Comercial Patagonia Market Ltda

Faculty of Engineering and Science

Amount awarded: 7.780.000 Chilean pesos

 

Director: Francisca Acevedo

Project title: Development of a dermal cream “EudemoniAftertattoo” for tattoo skin preparation and aftercare.

Company: Eudemoni House

Faculty of Medicine

Amount awarded: 7.780.000 Chilean pesos

 

Director: María Antonieta Ruiz

Project title: Valorization of waste of potatoes with colored flesh after pigment extraction for their potential industrial use.

Company: Nova Seed

Faculty of Engineering and Science

Amount awarded: 7.780.000 Chilean pesos

 

Director: Jorge Hochstetter

Project title: Teachers´ blackboards.

Company: Salgado Mathieu SpA

Faculty of Engineering and Science (Engineering 2030)

Amount awarded: 7.550.000 Chilean pesos

 

COMPETITION REGIONAL PROTOTYPE

Director: Víctor Albornoz, DITT

Project code: 17IPIREL-88466

Project title: Low-cost wood protector.

Company: Bioinnova SpA

Amount awarded: 45.188.160 Chilean pesos

 

Director: Renato Hunter

Project code: 

Project title: APR chlorine dispenser prototype.

Company: Mario Morales EIRL

Faulty of Engineering and Science (Engineering 2030)

Amount awarded: 43.115.000 Chilean pesos

 

 

Escrito por: Lorena Espinoza
Vice-rectorate of Research and Postgraduate Studies
 

 

PROGRAM OF COOPERATION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND COMPANIES

The Program of Cooperation between Science and Companies was created in 2017. Its main objective is to increase the number of companies that develop R&D&I projects and the rate of postulated and awarded projects with regional companies.

Some of the actions of operationalization of this program are prepared under the initiative called “Innovation Communities”, in which different public institutions and groups of businessmen come together with academic staff members of the university. This does not only show the capabilities but also successful experiences of cooperation, through projects and services, presented by the businessmen themselves to their peers.

328 companies with potential to work with the university have been identified and 42 alliances could be determined.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Agroindustrial Milagros - Temuco

Patio de Recreo - Temuco

Asesorías Genera Ltda. - Temuco

Ricardo Salazar - Chillán

Andes Nutraclinic - Santiago

Comercial Patagonia Market Limitada- Temuco

EudemoniHouse - Temuco

NovaSeed- Puerto Varas

Pizarrón del Profe–Temuco

Bioinnova SPA- Temuco

Mario Morales EIRL- Santiago