UC Davis Chile Life Sciences Innovation Center
UC Davis launched the UC Davis Chile Center in 2015 as an International Center of Excellence, with support from CORFO (an agency of the Ministry of Economy). It conducts applied research on issues important to Chile, linking UC Davis faculty and students to counterparts in Chile, including the Center’s scientific staff. The Center identifies and develops new technology in Chile and facilitates the transfer of proven technologies in California to Chilean producers and businesses via its innovative outreach and extension programs.
The Center has emphasized research in agriculture and the environment. However it is expanding to other areas where UC Davis has expertise relevant to Chile’s needs and opportunities, e.g., energy, natural resources, transportation, and medicine. UC Davis Chile has expert capabilities to support technology transfer, including intellectual property issues.
UC Davis Chile is a private non-profit foundation created by the Office of Regents of the University of California. It is administratively located and managed by Global Affairs, UC Davis. The Center’s Board of Directors includes top administrators and faculty from the Davis campus and from the Chilean universities and government institutions that work directly with the Center.
Main Objectives
- Facilitate collaborative research between UC Davis and Chilean researchers in academic and government institutions.
- Effectively transfer productive technologies from California to Chilean industry using UC Davis’ specialized expertise.
- Link UC Davis’ educational programs with Chilean universities and institutions.
What do we do?
UC Davis created the UC Davis Chile Center in 2015 to be a strategic partner of universities, firms and other institutions to undertake research and transfer new technologies to Chile’s agro-food and environmental sectors. The Center is now broadening its activities to include other sectors where US Davis has expertise that will help Chile meet its opportunities and needs.
Our academic partners have complementary scientific and institutional capabilities to those offered by UC Davis and the Center, advancing the Center’s ability to conduct research and achieve effective technological solutions.
Our business partners identify issues whose solutions can benefit their work and contribute knowledge to advance the Center’s research. In collaboration with them, UC Davis Chile undertakes applied research and conducts technology transfer to increase their productivity. The Center facilitates technical transfer by providing access to scientific knowledge and new technologies. It can also provide technical outreach and extension activities.
Examples of UC Davis Chile Services
- Situation Analysis: exploration of the problems and/or business needs and prospection of the best existing solutions. Evaluation of the state of art and technological benchmarking may be performed with the assessment of a national or international expert.
- Design and execution of applied R+D projects: initiatives to solve specific business problems through applied research, considering the development and testing of technologies and an appropriate plan of adoption and technological transfer. We articulate multidisciplinary teams, national and international.
- Design and execution of technology adoption projects: projects to solve specific business challenges through the adoption and transfer of developed or preexisting technologies, considering the scaling process.
- Specialized consultancies: assessments to enable the identification of appropriate solutions for companies and/or to support their implementation.