The researcher Mary Luz Osorio Montoya from the Fonotec group, attached to the Speech Therapy program of the María Cano University Foundation, participated as a speaker in the Latin American and Caribbean Hub of Transformative Innovation, bringing together institutions from Central and South America around the methodology created by the TIPC consortium , presenting the product of innovation generated in business management called: «Transfer of internal knowledge in educational organizations. differentiating factor of the quality of their services». This product is aligned with the mission and vision of the Institution, where research, innovation and entrepreneurship are determining dimensions for the transfer of knowledge, which will allow, in the long term, strategic links between the academic community and the sectors productive.

In the same event, an approach was generated with the Center for Science and Technology of Antioquia – CTA, a private non-profit corporation that for 33 years has led the articulation of the university-company-state triad, promoting, generating and transferring scientific knowledge and technology, which responds in a timely manner to the changing needs of the territories, their communities and organizations, enabling the social appropriation of knowledge. This relationship had the objective of generating strategic links now and in the future, both for the corporation and for our institution.

On its website, the Latin American and Caribbean Hub of Transformative Innovation highlights that «The HUB is a community of practice self-financed by its partners and includes the Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana, La Alianza EFI (Universidad del Rosario, Universidad UniMinuto, Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana), the Center for Science and Technology of Antioquia (CTA), the National Cancer Institute, the Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies – CIDER of the Universidad de los Andes, the Metropolitan Technological Institute (ITM), the Valley of Knowledge Program (University del Valle), the Universidad Iberoamericana de México and Universidad de Talca de Chile.Each of the members is developing experiments focused on transforming practices in different socio-technical systems: access to water, sustainable agriculture, circular economy and social innovation in the Health».

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