Student Information
Graduate Student
Innovation in Global Development
Rob Walton Col Global Futures
Long Bio
Katherine Santos is a Fullbright PhD student in Innovation in Global Development at the School of Global Futures.
She has worked for 10 years in Higher Education Institutions in Chile, specifically in areas of research, development, in charge of technology transfer processes from the University to the external sector.
She also has experience in university business incubators developing entrepreneurship within higher education Institutions.
Education
Master of Innovation - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Business Administrator - Universidad de Concepción
Research Interests
Main research interests:
(1) Innovation models based on collaboration, technology transfer and university-industry relationship.
Interested in studying the effects of bilateral collaboration between universities and industries, identifying characteristics/barriers that help/hinder more organic transfer processes in Latin America.
(2) Entrepreneurship ecosystems in Latin America and developing countries.
In this sense, she is interested in evaluating the role of University Business Incubators, their sustainability models, success indicators and the impact they can generate in early stage ventures.
On the other hand, the financing of business incubators, whether they should be profitable or rather it is a role of universities to deliver entrepreneurship competencies and methodologies to students to simply fulfill their mission function rather than considering a revenue mechanism for the University.
She is also interested in evaluating regional entrepreneurship ecosystems and how through the generation of these ecosystems there is the generation and transfer of knowledge among actors.