Universidad ORT Uruguay

Uruguay

Contacts	Julio Fernandez julio.fernandez@ort.edu.uy http://www.ort.edu.uy/index.php?id=AAAHAU
Objectives	Entrepreneurship Awareness Profitable Enterprises Helping to develop new technology-based sectors in the country
Description	Our university is co-founder, along with LATU, of the Ingenio business incubator (http://www.ingenio.org.uy/). In the university we offer pre-incubation services in the CIE (Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship) http://cie.ort.edu.uy.
Interests	We look for meaningful projects to develop entrepreneurship in university environments, with priority on technology based projects in the IT, biotechnology, design (graphic, garments, industrial), video games and audiovisual industry sectors. A current project is linking business plans development (which is required in postgraduate and undergraduate study programs in Management) to real-world entrepreneur's initiatives. About 20 projects have already been linked, and a tentative set of best practices has been developed for this task.
Services	Facilities: Shared laboratories Facilities: Shared workshops Finance: Financial management training Networks and Synergy: Facilitation of linkages between incubates Networks and Synergy: Networking events Networks and Synergy: Referrals to business professionals Technology Transfer: Help with intellectual property/patent advice Other: Pre-incubation technical entrepreneurship support.
Year Opened	2001
Type	Academic
Model	Not-for-profit
Sectors	Biotechnology ICTs Mixed Use
Target Population	Youth
Advocacy	This organization actively works to improve innovation and entrepreneurship policy and regulation

Young Uruguayan entrepreneurs receive funds from Angels Investors (Spanish only)

PedidosYa!, founded by young students from ORT University of Uruguay, receives funding (Spanish)

11 April 2011 | PedidosYa! apoyada por Fondo Emprender acordó con inversores de la Red de Inversores Ángeles de Uruguay, inversores argentinos y Atómico, fondo de capital de riesgo ingléscreado por un socio fundador de Skype More

Space

	Business Incubator	Technopark
Buildings
sq.m. available in total
sq.m used for incubator services/admin
sq.m. rented by client firms

Note: We do not offer rental space (virtual incubator)

Clients

	On-Site	Off-Site	Technopark
	Business Incubator
Number of client firms
Number of employees in client firms

Graduation

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Total*
Total client firms	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total employees in client firms	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Graduation

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Total*
Number of graduated firms	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Number of employees in graduated firms	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Companies still in operation 3 years after graduation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

*since beginning of incubator operation

Note: Does not keep track of the companies graduated
Note: Does do not use a graduation model for our incubator
Note: Is in regular contact with (most of) the graduated firms

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Universidad ORT Uruguay

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Young Uruguayan entrepreneurs receive funds from Angels Investors (Spanish only)

PedidosYa!, founded by young students from ORT University of Uruguay, receives funding (Spanish)