This Ranking analyses the performance of the universities in Chile. UFRO is ranked fifth overall, and fourth in the category “Innovation and Technology Transfer”.

The Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO) once again achieved to be in the group of Chilean universities with the best performance in the fields of research, development and innovation, standing out for its productive capacity, impact, quality, technologies and innovation.

The second Ranking R&D&I 2021, led by the advanced study group Universitas, analyzed the performance of the different universities of the Chilean university system regarding their development of scientific production, in which UFRO is ranked in fifth place.

One of the explanations for this great position is the high level regarding scientific production, thanks to the researchers of UFRO, who recently had to overcome great challenges, due to the global health crisis.

Another relevant factor that allowed UFRO to stand out among the universities is the quality and impact of the international publications (which are more than 800 annually) developed by the research teams that contributed in more than 200 fields of knowledge with their research.

FOURTH BEST IN CHILE IN INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

The democratization of knowledge is one of the main axes of UFRO, and the Vice-rectorate for Research and Graduate Studies puts a strong emphasis on efficient scientific transfer and a strong link between state, business and university. The work developed by the Office of Innovation and Technology Transfer plays an important role in that relationship and is reflected in this great result.

The director, Franklin Valdebenito, commented that these results in the field he directs make him “very proud, since it puts UFRO in a very select group of universities in Chile. At the same time, it is a great motivation to keep working in order to make our research results visible to the whole community and in order to be an important and concrete contribution for society. Innovation occurs when we develop science with an impact – that is our goal and what we focus on, when it comes to Innovation at UFRO”.

Written by: UFRO Communications Office