Book

Cross the street

Coordinators: Teresa Matus & Anahí Urquiza

Compilers: Carolina Leiva, Jesús Santorcuato & Paulina Espinoza

Suggested quote: Matus, T., & Urquiza, A. (Coords.)., Leiva, C., Santorcuato, J., & Espinoza, P. (Comps.). (2025). Cruzar la calle. Universidad de Chile.

Crossing the Street argues that the current context of polycrisis requires systemic responses that address the depth and complexity of global and national challenges. The book proposes a logic that embraces failures, critical issues, and imperfections as drivers of disruptive innovation, showing how to avoid repeating ineffective approaches and proposing new possibilities. Its grammar advances step by step, exposing disruptions and limitations as part of the innovative power of a Co-laboratory of Innovation with Public Purpose.

The text develops five cross-cutting approaches—polycentric collaboration, transdisciplinary knowledge, technological incorporation, innovation with implementation, and early measurement of effectiveness—that make up a new model of transfer guided by public purpose. From this perspective, research and its flow of innovations mark turning points, expand contingencies, and reveal opportunities for choice, linking knowledge production with governance capable of bringing together universities, public bodies, companies, foundations, and national and international centers.