The attendance and participation marked the seminar at the UFRO, which left the message that entrepreneurial capacities arise when individuals and organizations decide to confront the risks and to make the leap.

With the idea to respond to the questions of the local and regional audience, university members and the ones interested in making the leap from investigation to science, the Institute IDEA-UFRO of the Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO) invited a world-class expert to share his knowledge.

Erkko Autio is renowned as one of the 50 professors with most influence in global management. He was the main speaker at the seminar “Science for Innovation”, which the UFRO carried out.

To learn about the environment of innovation with experiences that transform and stimulate inspiration, knowledge and actions – these are some of the objectives with which the Institute IDEA-UFRO has been disseminating its activities in 2019, besides of the big projects and initiatives for the promotion of an entrepreneurial spirit and collaborative learning.

During the seminar, the Chair in Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London Business School – one of the institutions with most influence in London regarding the creation of hubs for innovation and entrepreneurship, which are capable of converting the cities they are located in into leading innovation centers – addressed how it is possible to generate a significant impact of social relevance through research.

In this context, Autio emphasized the privileged position of universities and technical centers (such as recruiters, knowledge-creators, and also creators of spaces for cooperation) and addressed issues of the studies focused on digitalization and the impact on the ecosystems of innovation, in the internationalization of companies and the creation of new business models.

“Digitalization is basically changing everything. It is transforming how value is created in society, and how therefore societies should organize for value creation. And it is transforming the process of entrepreneurial opportunity discovery and pursue,” he said.

In a promotional video that was disseminated by IDEA-UFRO for the promotion of the event, the professor explains how the Imperial College London Business School has been dealing with the big global challenges, aspects that are essential in the development of innovation and entrepreneurship, and explained: “Imperial picks mayor global challenges and then tries to resolve them. Only then does it bring in academic disciplines. There is a big focus on climate change, global health, global energy systems, digitalization, and so on. This is very different from many other places, where the academic discipline is the starting point.”

Written by: UFRO Communications Office
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