Proyecto TID: Transferencia - Innovación - Diseño para la Diversificación Productiva Exportadora de la Región del Biobío, Chile

Abstract

Biobío is one of the most important productive regions of Chile. Source of forest, agricultural and fishery resources, industrial development center, human capital formation and research, and one of the areas with the highest projected growth and decentralization. In this context, the Committee on Regional Productive Development aims to increase the innovative capacity and competitiveness of the business fabric, especially of small and medium-sized businesses. It is here where design has a space that has not been formalized as such. The Design School of Universidad del Desarrollo has had as its mission, since its inception, to impulse the conduction of academic projects that enable its students to be in direct contact with entrepreneurs and the processes of economic development. Thanks to the grant of the Innovation Fund for Biobío Regional Government Competitiveness, the support of the Institute of interdisciplinary Innovation iCubo of UDD and ProChile, the TID Project started in 2014, which led to strengthen the link and deepen the collaborative work between the university and the productive sector. TID was initially created as a pilot experience to promote technology transfer between academia and local business, through the design discipline.