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On Tuesday 10 December, fifteen 鈥渋nnovation vouchers鈥� were awarded to Chilean SMEs who will now begin working with project teams from the Universidad Cat贸lica, Universidad de Desarrollo and Universidad de Santiago to improve their company鈥檚 products and services. Rachel Sandby-Thomas, Director General of Skills and Enterprise from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), UK and Hern谩n Cheyre, Executive Vice-President of Corfo, delivered the fifteen awards which are part of the Innovation Vouchers pilot project co-funded by the British Embassy and the Ministry of Economy.

皇冠体育app pilot project aims to replicate a similar innovation vouchers grant scheme that was launched in the UK in 2012. This UK scheme seeks to encourage small to medium sized businesses in collaborating with actors outside of their existing networks in order to gain new knowledge. In particular, the Chilean pilot project focuses on strengthening the connection between SME鈥檚 and universities as an opportunity to evaluate the scheme for wider implementation at a national level in Chile.

Over fifty Chilean companies applied to the programme during the month of October and the fifteen selected companies will receive 2,000,000 CLP worth of advice and expertise from the one of three participating universities to develop a service related to the company over the next few months. 皇冠体育app diverse service areas for these projects range from one project related to an auto fact reporting system in Santiago to another project associated with environmentally friendly waste water management systems in Punta Arenas.

One of the highlighted projects involves Solarwind-Chile鈥檚 production of solar panels to use air for heating, climate control and de-humidifying. 皇冠体育app originality of this project earned Solarwind-Chile an additional voucher awarded by Chile Dise帽o that corresponds to specialised project consultation services from the UK Design Council.

皇冠体育app winning companies and their partnering universities are:

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

• S.C.I. Interservice Ltda.
• Algramo
• Diagnochip
• Ikuna
• Indescon

Universidad del Desarrollo

• 皇冠体育app Language Co
• Shamrock Idiomas Limitada
• Solarwind-Chile
• 皇冠体育app South Ltda.
• Fremartec Ltda.

Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile

• ESSE Soluciones Energ茅ticas Ltda.
• Grupo Kaweskar Ltda.
• Autofact Chile SpA
• Real Systems Ingenier铆a Inform谩tica Ltda.
• Greve Ltda.

Further information

For more information about this project, contact Christian Pena-Ratinen, Innovation and Chevening Officer at the British Embassy.

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