AGENTIA is the Agency for Innovation and Development of the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste University. AGENTIA fosters entrepreneurship as a model for the change. Besides, it fosters an innovation culture, and it builds consensus.

Aims:

• Identifying new business opportunities in the region.

• Supporting the creation and consolidation of companies.

• Fostering entrepreneurial values in the university.

• Fostering and supporting innovation in regional businesses.

• Encouraging the diversification of the economic network in the region.

2015 Vision and mission

We want to become change agents serving sustainable regional developments in social and territorial cohesion. For that purpose, we will focus our activities on the business-production sector in the North area of Argentina, based on the appraisal of quality, excellence, and relevance.  

Our big challenge is to make reality the collective thinking of the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste university promoters – The university will be within the society; it will be a new one; and it will be at the service to society and for the sustainable regional developments. 

Our main strategic alliances involve institutional change agents who act as links between government, businesses, and universities in issues such as local and regional development, research and development, creativity and innovation, culture, and business education.

Corporate mission

We promote and manage social and cultural knowledge in the interdisciplinary field of development to benefit the North region society through the expansion of entrepreneur skills, innovation management, collective construction, and value management. 

Businesses missions

The business units that constitute AGENTIA are:

• The Skills Development Unit: is aimed at boosting the participation of the university community to acquire entrepreneurial and business skills, and the creation of technologybased enterprises in the region in order to facilitate the process of identifying, capturing and taking up business opportunities and social innovations.

• The Innovation Management Unit:  seeks to foster an innovation ecosystem in the region for the development of the economy and production where the university is an active participant.

• The Consensusbuilding Unit: is aimed at promoting economic development and socialregional cohesion in the North of Argentina.

• The Value Management Unit: promotes and manages the use of intellectual capital and the structure of AGENTIA.