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A New Engineering for 2030 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN A NEW ENGINEERING FOR 2030 Name of the project: Research, Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Meet Global Engineering Demands FIRST REPORT: PARTIAL RESULTS AND MILESTONE Recipient’s name: Name: Universidad de Chile Legal Name: Universidad de Chile Name of Representative : Ennio Vivaldi Véjar (Rector) Project’s Director: Name of the Director: Felipe Álvarez Daziano Institution: Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM), Universidad de Chile Telephone: +56 2 2978 4419 Email: [email protected] Address: Torre Central, Beauchef 850, Santiago, Chile Operational contact information: Person of contact: Mauricio Morales Meza / Luis Salas Albornoz Telephone : +56 2 29771260 / +56 9 79 68 90 63 Email: [email protected] / [email protected] Address: Fundación para la Transferencia Tecnológica (UNTEC), Beauchef 993, Santiago, Chile TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 1 EMPHASIZED STRATEGIC APPROACH 9 1.1 General Strategy 10 1.1.1 Engineering & Sciences at the Beauchef Campus of UChile 10 1.1.2 An Overview on Institutional Commitment to Continuous Improvement 11 1.1.3 Brief Gap Analysis 13 1.1.4 Trajectory and Strategy to Overcome the Identified Gaps 14 1.1.5 Proposed Transformation Plan 16 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN / A NEW ENGINEERING FOR 2030 OF THE STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION 1.1.6 Main Goals and Expected Results 17 1.2 Human Capital and Change Management 18 1.2.1 Change Management in Academia 18 1.2.2 Change Implementation, Organizational Change and Project Workforce 20 Research, Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Meet Global Engineering Demands 1.3 Governance and Synergies 26 1.4 Applied R&D&i and Industry Engagement 26 1.4.1 Multidisciplinary Areas for Priority Development 26 1.4.2 Technology Transfer Management 27 1.4.3 Pilot technological projects 29 1.5 Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship 31 1.5.1 General Approach 31 1.5.2 Activities 32 1.6 International Alliances 36 1.7 Curricular Harmonization and Technological Graduate Programs 38 1.8 References 41 2 OPERATIONAL PLAN (NEXT 36 MONTHS) 42 2.1 Control and Tracking Methodology 43 2.1.1 Risk Management Principles and Framework 43 2.1.2 Planning and Monitoring & Control 44 2.1.3 Risk Identification Procedure 44 2.1.4 Organization for Risk Management 46 2.2 Metrics and Indicators 48 2.2.1 Critical Indicators 48 2.2.2 Minimal Indicators 55 2.3 Activities, Projects, Results 65 2.3.1 Ecosystem activities 65 2.3.2 Human Capital and Change Management. Plan of action at FCFM 68 2.3.3 Governance and Synergies 69 2.3.4 Applied R&D&i and Industry Engagement Activities 69 2.3.5 Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship 73 2.3.6 International Alliances 77 2.3.7 Curricular Harmonization and Technological Graduate Programs Activities 79 2.4 Gantt Chart 88 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 RISK MANAGEMENT AND ANALISYS 104 3.1 Risk Management Plan 105 3.2 Risk Identification 106 3.3 Context for A New Engineering for 2030 program 111 3.3.1 Context for the Curricular Harmonization Project 111 3.3.2 Context for Entrepreneurship 113 3.3.3 Context for Technology Tranfer 114 117 3.4 Risk Identification for Curricular Harmonization Project IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN / A NEW ENGINEERING FOR 2030 OF THE STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION 3.4.1 Risk / Opportunities Workshops 117 3.4.2 Conclusions of Risk Identification 117 3.5 Risk Identification for Entrepreneurship Project 123 3.5.1 Risk Workshop 123 124 Research, Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Meet Global Engineering Demands 3.5.2 Conclusions of Risk Identification 3.6 Risk Identification for Technology Transfer project 128 3.6.1 Risk Workshop 128 3.6.2 Conclusions of Risk Identification 128 3.7 Key Risk Indicators (KRI) Measures 131 4 MODIFIED BUDGET 132 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 135 4 EXECUTIVE The FCFM, even before this grant, has put a change process in motion to restate a clear vision for the future: SUMMARY to become a world class institution recognized by its leadership in science, technology and innovation, The Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences driven by multidisciplinary cutting-edge research that (FCFM in Spanish), located at the Beauchef Campus addresses both global and national challenges, and of the Universidad de Chile (UChile), is one of the that provides an outstanding and broad educational leading higher-education engineering institutions experience, being engaged with society and industry. both nationally and regionally. As evident in its By 2030, FCFM aims to be among the best 100 research record, the FCFM ranks fourth in Latin engineering schools in the world and the top 3 in America in the QS Ranking. The ranking reflects the Latin America. quality of FCFM undergraduate students (selected from the top 3% of high school students according to This vision will be achieved through a strategy the national admission test); the number of graduate of organic institutional change together with a programs and students (reaching 23 Master’s and policy of strong alliances with prestigious partners, IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN / A NEW ENGINEERING FOR 2030 OF THE STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION 12 PhD programs); the high competitiveness in geared towards improving research, education and raising funds from national agencies (95% of the impact on the Chilean economy, through innovation faculty participates in an external research grant); its and entrepreneurship based on Scientific and history of curriculum change (with the early adoption Technological knowledge (i+e ST). The benchmarking of the CDIO initiative); and its record of technology process clearly showed that the pursuit of meaningful transfer and innovation results. In fact, FCFM has a Research, Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Meet Global Engineering Demands i+e can generate these positive effects; moreover, the number of examples of knowledge-based innovation important stress we place on innovation being based and entrepreneurship activities, which place it at on ST knowledge is because, as boldly stated by the the very top nationally (yet far from international Chilean Academy of Sciences “those innovations best standards). For instance, in the recent book are the ones that, in the end, create more wealth for “Innovación basada en Conocimiento Científico” society. (…) Innovation based on scientific knowledge (Innovation Based on Scientific Knowledge), edited is a young phenomenon (in Chile), but it is the one by the Chilean Academy of Sciences, the reader may with an elevated potential for transforming productive find 6 out of 15 examples of successful innovations processes”. that were carried out by FCFM faculty (another three examples include other UChile professors). This Our strategic plan for change considers actions that book was commanded by the Ministry of Education will impact, in a transversal way, on different areas to the Chilean Academy of Sciences and is the result of the FCFM ecosystem as well as on specific areas of the work of 32 scientists and 21 representatives such as human resources and change management, from industry. research & development and technology transfer, commercialization processes and entrepreneurship, In this context, the Beauchef Campus of UChile international alliances and curriculum harmonization. aims to be an internationally recognized center in engineering and science, to be a major player in the In order to improve the FCFM ecosystem and its process of adoption of science and technology in immediate surrounding ecosystem – Santiago, the the Latin American economy. It is the responsibility strategic plan proposes the following activities: of FCFM faculty to significantly contribute to the advancement of basic sciences, earth sciences, (1) Encourage multidisciplinary research and engineering, business and management sciences, education, in order to increase the relevance and addressing the problems and needs of the country potential impact of our activities. and global society. To contribute to the goal of making Chile a developed country, more integrated into the (2) Move FCFM towards a teaching methodology global community, the FCFM needs to strengthen the with more hands-on projects, multidisciplinary work attention to activities included in the University’s third and CDIO approach together with innovating on the mission: wealth creation and economic development assessment process, thus allowing the formation of through technology transfer and innovation. This is world class students with improved skills in innovation the purpose of this project. and tools for entrepreneurship. 5 (3) Strengthen our graduate programs by enhancing (5) There are a number of activities related to enhancing the graduate school, developing a strong action plan the ecosystem at the FCFM, starting with the MIT- to increase the number of graduate students and to Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program promote dissertations in multidisciplinary topics in (REAP), which in two years will produce a plan to connection with industry. enhance the Santiago ecosystem. In addition there are at least six national stakeholders from different (4) The original proposal was a large organizational sectors: government (innovation for the productivity change to foster scientific/technology innovation presidency council and CORFO), venture capital, and entrepreneurship, by creating a series of large corporations, entrepreneurs and the Universities new Associate Deans, resulting in a high risk of (represented by the Universidad de Chile).
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