Our team
The Innovation Futures Initiative (IFI) at Universidad de San Andrés brings together executive leadership, academic vision, and a partner network to drive innovation with next-generation methodologies, greater implementation capacity, and deeper coordination across stakeholders.
This combination, world-class academic credentials and executive experience in investment, entrepreneurship, and innovation, is central to the IFI ’s approach: connecting knowledge, action, and collaboration to address complex challenges from Latin America to the world.
Carlos Osorio
Academic Director
Carlos is a Professor of Innovation with joint appointments in the schools of Business and Engineering at Universidad de San Andrés. At IFI, he leads the agenda for innovation capability development, methodology design, and leadership training.
His research and teaching focus on innovation processes and methods for high-risk, uncertain, and complex environments, with an emphasis on how the world’s most innovative teams operate and how to build high-performing, autonomous innovation capabilities.
He has been an International Faculty Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, and a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab. He has also served as a visiting professor at Deusto Business School, a speaker at Singularity University, and an external associate of the Lemelson-MIT Program on Invention Education.
From 2007 to 2017, he led the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, where he launched Latin America’s first Master’s in Innovation, ranked among the world’s top three by Innovation Management in 2014. Since 2013, he has worked with more than 10,000 professionals across 20 countries.
He is co-author of "Methods for Enabling Innovation Learning," which received the 2015 Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Award, and was recognized by AACSB and BizEd Magazine as one of four leading professors globally in innovation learning.
He co-founded Yuken, a Chile-based global research and capability-building lab focused on design and innovation.
He has advised governments and Fortune 100 companies across pharmaceuticals, energy, banking, mining, and telecommunications.
He holds a PhD in Technology, Management, and Policy and a Master’s in Technology Policy from MIT; a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School; and a degree in Industrial Civil Engineering from Universidad de Chile. He is a Fulbright Fellow and Marie Curie Scholar.
Our partners
We operate through networks. Our strategic partnerships across academic, technological, and institutional domains expand our capabilities and connect partners organizations to networks and resources that extend well beyond UdeSA.
Our team combines expertise in investment, entrepreneurship, strategy, applied research, and innovation capability development. This is complemented by a network of partners that expands our ability to address complex problems with greater depth, stronger collaboration, and better implementation conditions.
The result is UdeSA’s IFI, a platform that not only thinks about innovation, it makes it possible through the intersection of people, institutions, and complementary capabilities.
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