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November 24, 2025
CLIPP Launch
The University of Chile marked a new milestone in knowledge transfer and social impact with the official launch of the Co-laboratory for Innovation with Public Purpose (CLIPP). The event, held on November 24 in the crowded Julieta Kirkwood Auditorium of the Faculty of Social Sciences, brought together representatives from academia, the private sector, civil society, and public authorities.
The day was structured around four key moments:
First, What is CLIPP?, where the vision and purpose of the collaboratory were presented, highlighting its commitment to articulating academic knowledge, scientific evidence, and public decision-making. This space featured presentations by Rosa Devés, Christian González, and Teresa Matus, who emphasized the need for new forms of coordination in the face of the country's structural challenges.
The CLIPP Board of Directors was also presented at this event. It is conceived as the governing body responsible for guiding strategic planning, deliberation, and decision-making. It is composed of Alejandra Mizala, Vice-Rector of the University of Chile; Anahí Urquiza, Director of Innovation at the University of Chile; José Inostroza, Director of the Digital Government Secretariat; Katherine Villarroel, Executive Director of CTCI; Pablo Silva, President of the Association of Governors and Governor of the O'Higgins Region; Holger Paulmann, President of ICARE; Gabriela Salvador, Executive Director of Vantrust Capital; Felipe Lagno, Corporate Manager of Innovation and Technology at CODELCO; David Viera, Education and Community Manager at Anglo American; Marcela Bravo, Director of the Solidarity Organizations Community; and Camila González, Regional Director of the Overcoming Poverty Foundation. The composition of this board reflects the plurality of the ecosystem that CLIPP seeks to mobilize, integrating academia, government, business, and civil society in a single space of polycentric governance oriented toward intersectoral coordination, transdisciplinarity, and public purpose.
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Next, the panel “How to innovate with public purpose?” brought together actors from the public, social, and productive ecosystems—Anahí Urquiza, Claudio Maggi, Katherine Villarroel, David Viera, Paloma del Villar, Arturo Celedón, and Julieta Palma—to reflect on collaborative innovation, knowledge transfer, and the use of evidence in real decision-making contexts.
Finally, the Join CLIPP block extended an invitation to join this working community, reinforcing the idea of CLIPP as a living space, aimed at accelerating proposals that connect the best scientific evidence with the timing of public policies and the needs of the territories.
This launch marks the beginning of a work agenda that seeks to transform knowledge into public impact, placing collaboration, purpose, and collective well-being at the center of innovation.
