Vision and Mission

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Venture Medium Term Goals: Our Vision

The institute's primary economic goal is establishing solid basis for sustainable economic growth by means of developing value creating innovations based on innovative applied research, attracting foreign and supra-regional investments to innovative and potentially world-class business ventures; pre-incubating technologies aimed at forming gazelle class startups; and at contributing to the retention of locally trained technological talent in the V Region of Chile; and even attracting technological talent from elsewhere in Latin America and the world.

We believe that our institute will become a primary anchor point in the V Region of Chile for a future technology and industrial corridor along RT-68, connecting Valparaiso's Curauma Region with Santiago's International Airport. We envision along RT-68 and over the next 30 years, the development of at least one technology park, of several industrial parks and the consolidation of major population centers. These parks will not only employ significant numbers of people, but will also provide large numbers of high paying jobs. These jobs will gradually boost regional demand for housing and services, resulting in a sustainable multiplying effect with all the associated spillover effects.

Our institute expects to impact the region by means of the creation of numerous startups, most of them short lived, however some of them successful, and a few, very successful gazelles. There is ample empirical economic evidence that shows that as much as one third of the employment generated each year is contributed by just a handful of rapidly growing companies. These gazelle companies, that rapidly become large organizations, are unique because of their capabilities for sustainable growth based on the uniqueness of their innovative concepts, capacity for driving growing markets through managerial talent and skilled execution. These companies tend to have a strong technological innovation as a critical element of its product or of its go-to-market operations.

Venture Immediate Goals: Our Objectives

The Institute’s primary technical goal is that of becoming a “Center of Excellence, creating Intellectual property and transferring to industry”, over the basis of developing world class competences in Applied High Performance Computing – HPC.

We face HPC as an enabling technology to supporting; Engineering and Functional Advanced Design, Applied Scientific Simulations, Industrial Process Optimizations and Advanced Visualization Technologies. These are closely related disciplines that support most industrial competitiveness of the 21st century.

Design, in its many forms, is now a key driver of value creation, of rapidly growing startups, of high paying jobs and of sustainable competitive advantage. Design is also becoming increasingly complex demanding technical skill sets and very expensive computer software dominates every aspect of the design, prototyping and manufacturing processes. Computer aided design of mechanical parts, casting molds, integrated electronic circuits and embedded technologies, animated features and movies, furniture, ornaments and interior design, buildings and structures design, and even of new materials and drugs, are now the domain of sophisticated computer software running on high performance hardware platforms for both, computation and visualization.

It is expected that as this trend continues, over half of all professionals will work over the coming years behind computer enabled design tools. Resulting from this trend is the emergence of fully customized products through flexible manufacturing and rapid design and prototyping. These trends are now driving much of the present and most likely all of the future economic growth of most developed and developing regions of the world.

Developing and maintaining skills in the utilization of these tools, as well as gaining access to the most advanced computer design tools currently available, spreading their knowledge and utilization to regional universities, and to entrepreneurial individuals, constitute the single and most important unifying purpose of all activities to be conducted within our institute.

Regional Development

The institute contributes to the national and regional development efforts by providing measurable benefits as far as:

1. Valuable Applied Innovations in the form of Globally Relevant and Intellectual Property Rich Innovations.
2. Workforce Training and New Competitive Skills Development around Advanced Computer Aided Design.
3. Active Technology Transfer to Universities and Small Businesses.
4. Active Involvement in New Small Technology Enterprises Formation.
5. Proactive Attraction of Foreign Investment and Outsourced Services. These areas are among the primary goals of most agents of any developing or developed economy. Those regions that succeed at mastering these tools will enjoy higher standards of living, lower rates of unemployment and lower levels of poverty.
6. The institute achieves this goal by developing well structured research and development programs. Programs are composed by multiple projects all of them addressing complementary aspects of developing a technology, product or skill. Each program starts as an internal initiative, and rapidly evolves to engage the broader community by incorporating regional and foreign universities, local and global corporations, and regional, national and international government agencies.

Success Factors

There are multiple factors. The most critical ones are:

Non-Profit Corporation.

We see the non-profit structure of the organization as essential to the success and operation of the institute as it allows us to receive donations; undertake risky projects that may need several years to complete and with budgets difficult estimate; structure a flexible membeship structure that allows for assembling different teams each optimized for a different task, etc. Operating a non-profit organization requires clear and enforceable membership agreements and contribution contracts, requires alternative means to join as different stakeholders join for different motives, and strong internal and external performance metrics.

Effective Outreach.

Non-profit ventures depend on public understanding and willingness to make sacrifices and to exhibit patience until the fruits of the effort deliver results. There are no shortcuts. We need more than any other institution the support of national scene politicians and business leaders. Our success depends on attracting them, motivating them and making that our vision becomes their own.

Meaningful Projects.

Success in the form of successful projects is the best way to show viability of the organization. This in turn requires identifying projects that are far enough into the future so that our innovation is perceived as valuable at the time it finally hatches.

Committed Members.

We need the support of our members, particularly of the strategic technology partners, and of the government stakeholders.

Abundant Resources

Research is expensive. We need abundant resources, timely released, and at disbursed at a growing rate year after year, until the proposition succeeds. We need human capital, worldwide talent, and coordinated efforts with government, agencies and industry to attract and retain.