The Innovation Futures Initiative (IFI) is the innovation hub of Universidad de San Andrés, bringing together industry, government, and academia to solve complex challenges from Latin America to the world. We take a transdisciplinary approach to developing future-oriented solutions.
Prototyping the future
Innovation at IFI
We understand innovation as a philosophy of setting goals that may seem impossible, and of finding unique ways to achieve them, creating new opportunities and meaningful and lasting change.
Our programs
Capability building
We empower teams to achieve the impossible by building innovation capabilities and installing sustainable, high-impact practices through modular workshops, so innovation becomes part of everyday work.
Innovation methodologies
We design programs with structured methodologies to explore challenges, accelerate learning, and scale solutions, with the aim of reducing failure rates and increase the return on innovation.
Applied research
We co-develop intellectual property and actionable knowledge with corporations and organizations, supported by UdeSA’s transdisciplinary teams.
Ecosystem articulation
We bring together public, private, and academic stakeholders to build innovation ecosystems that drive long-term economic and social impact.
Innovation de-risking
85%-95% of innovation projects fail, many because of avoidable errors. We develop tools to identify and reduce them, increasing the likelihood of success.
Master’s in Business Innovation
We aim to train a new generation of innovation professionals capable of transforming how challenges are approached and solved in Latin America. UdeSA’s. Master’s in Business Innovation starts in April 2027.
Our moonshot is to become the highest-impact innovation hub in the Southern Hemisphere and one of the world’s top ten by 2035.
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Our team
Carlos Osorio
Academic Director
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