What is the CLIPP?

CLIPP: a logic for tackling the polycrisis

The CLIPP emerged from the University of Chile as a response to a context of polycrisis that demands new ways of observing, understanding, and intervening in complex phenomena. Its starting point is a logic that assumes failures, limitations, and interruptions as part of the innovation process, and that focuses its efforts on five areas: polycentric collaboration, transdisciplinary knowledge, technological incorporation, implementation, and early measurement of effectiveness.

From this foundation, The CLIPP articulates an ecosystem capable of connecting scientific evidence, prototypes, minimally viable products, and scaling processes, positioning transfer as a way to open up possibilities in the face of what is no longer advisable to repeat. Its work seeks to generate institutional conditions for research to be transformed into decisions, tools, and processes available to public agencies, companies, foundations, and national and international centers.

New transfer model to address public challenges

The CLIPP presente a collective transfer model that integrates research, innovation, and polycentric governance, incorporating valuable ideas from different fields of knowledge. This approach is based on the understanding that problems are interconnected and that institutions require linkages capable of sustaining implementation, validation, and scaling processes.

In this model, transfer is linked to open science, the use of DOIs to protect intellectual property, FAIR standards, and interactive systems that provide access to formulations, data, and evidence generated in projects aimed at the public good. This creates a space where universities, government agencies, companies, and foundations can deliberate, prioritize, and advance disruptive innovations that respond to complex phenomena.

A University that cross the borders of knowledge

The University of Chile has been recognized as Frontier University No. 1 by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation, within the framework of the structural financing program for R&D&I in universities.

Based on this recognition, he is leading the creation of the ICAI Platform—an institutional catalyst that promotes research, artistic creation, and innovation guided by Country Challenges and Sustainable Development.

This platform identifies seven key areas for institutional development, including the need to streamline knowledge transfer and innovation processes, turning research results into high-impact public goods.

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POLYCENTRIC GOVERNANCE

CLIPP adopts an organizational model that responds to the complexity of contemporary systems. It is based on the existence of multiple autonomous and interdependent decision-making centers, linked by shared rules and oriented toward learning and cooperation. This approach understands governance as a network of links between institutions that learn from each other and generate innovation from diversity. Its strength lies in distributed coordination, where legitimacy is built through communication, trust, and shared purpose.

TRANSDISCIPLINARY

Transdisciplinarity emerges as a systemic and organizational response to the complexity of the current scenario. CLIPP takes on the challenge of integrating transdisciplinarity as a dual movement: opening up complexity to recognize the plurality of voices and closing it to produce decisions, learning, and traceability. From this perspective, the aim is not to eliminate the differences between disciplines, but to articulate them in a functional framework that allows their respective closures to be translated into a common language of collaboration. Its purpose is to generate a space where different disciplinary logics can be structurally coupled, maintaining their autonomy but expanding their collective capacity for observation, experimentation, and learning.

TECHNOLOGICAL INCORPORATION

CLIPP addresses technological incorporation by guiding innovation development toward public purpose and promoting technology that generates social value, equity, and sustainability. It promotes a model that integrates digital, analog, and social technologies, recognizing their different contexts of production and impact. Its work consists of designing institutional, ethical, and political frameworks that ensure the democratic appropriation of innovation, transforming technology transfer into a common, open, traceable, and public-minded infrastructure.

IMPLEMENTATION

CLIPP conceives implementation as a critical phase of public policies and innovations, where ideas encounter the real conditions of territories and institutions. It is a space for mediation, learning, and the production of public value, in which designs are transformed into action through decisions, resources, and relationships. Implementation expresses the moment when innovation materializes and is redefined according to local contexts, revealing its capacity to generate change. Through a dynamic transfer model, CLIPP articulates anticipation, monitoring, and continuous learning, strengthening institutional capacity to generate effective, sustainable innovations oriented toward collective well-being.

EFFECTIVENESS

Measuring effectiveness involves understanding both the results achieved and the organizational, regulatory, and cultural conditions that enable them. CLIPP promotes a broader understanding of effectiveness through the Multidimensional Effectiveness Index (MEI), enabling self-assessment, traceability, and evidence-based decision-making with the aim of turning evaluation into a process of innovation and learning, strengthening the capacity of public and private systems to generate social value, efficiency, and confidence in their results.