Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM, due to its initials in Spanish) is the main and most important university in Mexico. Some of its focus are the teaching, research, and cultural promotion. In the other hand, Anahuac Mexico University is a private institution which is distinguished by its excellence on professionals’ education, and their national and international industrial relationships.
UNAM has the Innovation and Development Coordination (CID, due to its initials in Spanish), which among other functions, encourages the innovation culture and university entrepreneurship. It does this through supporting researchers, students, and ex-students to consolidate their entrepreneurial projects and/or technological transfer.
Concurrently, Anahuac Mexico University has the IDEARSE Business Accelerator, which is in charge of supporting the growth of entrepreneurs and PYMES (small and medium enterprises, due to its initials in Spanish) to improve their competitiveness, market opportunity and scalability.
Given this background, UNAM and Anahuac Mexico University decided to collaborate to conform the University Binational Innovation Node (NoBI Universitario, in Spanish), with the support of CONACYT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, in Spanish). The objective is clear: Raise awareness on the academic personnel involved in research activities about the importance of market validation so their results can positively impact society, through licensing or an enterprise project configuration.
Both institutions work together to apply the I-Corps methodology in Mexico and to make university capacities available to Mexican society through technology transfer, research, relationships, entrepreneurship, and innovation activities development.
