Universidad de La Serena

Universidad de La Serena is a mid-sized public regional university serving the Coquimbo Region, with a broad academic and research mission and roughly 7,500 undergraduate students. Its six-campus footprint in La Serena, Coquimbo, and Ovalle gives corporate R&D teams access to laboratories, faculty expertise, and student talent close to regional economic activity. External collaboration is organized through the Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Postgrado, a dedicated Office of Creation and Innovation, formal agreements with public and productive-sector partners, and participation in the APTA technology-transfer hub. Research is supported primarily by competitive national funding, especially from Chile’s ANID and CORFO. Institutional policies and specialized units support intellectual-property protection, licensing, technology transfer, and science-based entrepreneurship.