Uruguay Innovation HubOur commitment is to further consolidate the strong local innovation ecosystem. We achieve this through the implementation of new tools and the development of initiatives that foster collaboration and synergies among the players in the ecosystem.
We seek to strengthen and accelerate startups in high-growth sectors such as DeepTech, GreenTech and BioTech, as well as to position the country as a benchmark in the search for and resolution of global problems through innovation.
Uruguay Innovation Hub promotes the installation in the country of a technology-based accelerator that offers financial support, mentoring, training and integrating them into a large network of regional and international contacts.
The program seeks to empower these startups, accelerating their entry into international markets as a way to achieve success.
This tool positions Uruguay as a regional innovation center that offers attractive opportunities and favorable conditions for both startups and investment funds.
For startups, it facilitates access to capital, resources and knowledge necessary for growth. In addition, these funds will promote their expansion and enable them to establish global connections.
By encouraging the participation of international funds in co-investment schemes, it promotes the growth and diversification of local investment.
Uruguay Innovation Hub supports the installation in the country of a biotech Company Builder that identifies ideas with entrepreneurial potential and, by providing a business vision, promotes the creation of new bio startups and their subsequent acceleration.
This Company Builder will contribute by providing proven methodologies, a network of mentors, international connections and the possibility of investment in the early stages of entrepreneurship.
With the aim of strengthening the national entrepreneurial ecosystem, the Uruguay Innovation Hub promotes the creation of a physical space that promotes synergy between key players in the program.
For this reason, there will be an innovation campus within the LATU Technology Park that will house open laboratories, companies, investment funds and coworking spaces for startups.
Uruguay Innovation Hub seeks to promote the installation of open innovation and prototyping laboratories in the country.
These spaces allow them to develop and validate their ideas, using cutting-edge technological tools and resources, and enable startups to generate prototypes and test them before expanding their products or services, which allows them to reduce risks, improve quality and increase competitiveness.
Through the Uruguay Innovation Hub program, work is being done to create innovation-friendly environments from the regulatory point of view.
This involves facilitating registration, authorization, oversight and control processes for innovative initiatives, as well as promoting flexibility, experimentation and learning.
The program promotes various instances that promote the development and consolidation of the national innovation ecosystem with the aim of empowering local, regional and international entrepreneurs.
In this line, events, talks, forums, exhibitions and other projects are organized and accompanied to generate spaces for interaction and learning among entrepreneurs, investors, experts and other key players.
Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Minería (MIEM)
Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas (MEF)
Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (MEC)
Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto (OPP)
Executive Director - Uruguay Innovation Hub
Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación
The Uruguay Innovation Hub program works to promote the economic, technological and innovative development of the country. For this reason, it implements various initiatives that leverage the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, attract talent and investment, and promote regulatory adjustments that foster local innovation.
Turn Uruguay into a regional and global benchmark in terms of innovation and entrepreneurship, consolidating an ecosystem of sustainable and disruptive development.
The Uruguay Innovation Hub is a national program that aims to position the country as an innovation hub through the implementation of various tools and the development of initiatives that promote and strengthen the Uruguayan innovative ecosystem.
The program seeks to foster agreements between the public and private sectors to develop investment opportunities, innovation, and accelerate ventures and projects in key strategic sectors: biotechnology, green technologies, and deep technologies.
Due to a favorable investment environment and the good macroeconomic performance of the country in recent years, Uruguay has positioned itself as a desirable and attractive destination for foreign investors. The country has strong political and social stability, backed by a consolidated democracy and great legal security.
The Uruguay Innovation Hub program promotes the following tools to support the innovative ecosystem:
Through the Uruguay Innovation Hub's official website and other channels, open and transparent calls for applications to the acceleration programs will be conducted. Each call will outline the requirements for applying.
Each of the funds will specify the application requirements and their selection processes.
Uruguay is working on the establishment of various innovation laboratories. Currently, the country already has:
In this third meeting, the focus was on the so-called Deep tech. In this way, this activity visualized what is happening in Uruguay in terms of technological innovations based on cutting-edge scientific and technical advances, such as artificial intelligence, big data, machine learning and quantum computing.
Read more +Within the framework of the Uruguay Innovation Hub program, a request for proposal has been opened for the implementation in our country of a company building program focused on biotechnology.
Read more +Based on the applications received, it was decided to extend the call for those accelerator programs that want to settle in Uruguay within the framework of the Uruguay Innovation Hub Program. The new deadline closes on Tuesday, December 5 at 14h (UYT / UTC-3).
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