MBA José Ramón López Arellano, Director of the Technological Innovation Park (PIT, Parque de Innovación Tecnológica) of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa), was part of the first GeT-In group (2014), which stayed in Germany last year’s autumn. After such stay, joint with other participants of the same group, the Director of the PIT-UAS wrote a chapter of the book GeT-In 2014: Experiences of an Intensive program of Professionalization for Linkage Managers from Higher Education Institutions (GeT-In 2014: experiencias de un programa intensivo de profesionalización de gestores de vinculación de instituciones de educación superior), to which presentation attended on Monday 6th of July, within the framework of the GeT-In 2015, carried out in Pachuca (Hidalgo, Mexico).

GeT-In, Intensive Program of Professionalization for Linkage Managers from Higher Education Institutions in Mexico, is organized by the Autonomous University of Hidalgo State (UAEH, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo) in coordination with the Kassel University and the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences; it is financed by the National Council of Science and Technology (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología) through the Associate Directorate of Technological Development and Innovation (Dirección Adjunta de Desarrollo Tecnológico e Innovación), and it is supported by the National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior), the Consortium of Mexican Universities (Consorcio de Universidades Mexicanas) and the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst).

With an intensive course of professionalization, GeT-In aims to reduce the existent technological gap among higher education institutions (IES, instituciones de educación superior) and their economic and social environments, through the exchange with other countries’ experts and the knowledge of best practices in Germany; likewise, the exchange aroused among the participants and presenter’s inputs contribute to delimitate adequate strategies and necessary operative changes so that IES’s internationalization processes be promoted and the university-enterprise linkage be strengthen.

During the first of the two days of activities of GeT-In’s 2015 edition, were dealt with subjects as Germany’s innovation system and its knowledge networks, besides knowledge and technology transfer in the UAEH, which Knowledge City was visited by the course’s attendees. This second program aims to lay the groundwork for the creation of a specific thematic network about Mexico.

GeT-In 2015 had the participation of national and foreign speakers, experts on entrepreneurship, linkage, technology transfer, patents and intellectual property. Participants included decision-makers and public servants on innovation, entrepreneurship, technology and linkage areas from Mexican IES, such as The College of the Southern Border, Technological University of Tulancingo and the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.

Thus, the PIT-UAS complies with its institutional role, which consists on helping to overcome the lack of economic and social development, both in Sinaloa and the country, since experiences like GeT-In will allow the Park to strength its labor of integrating multidisciplinary projects on key fields of knowledge that, implementing the triple helix model and for the sake for the prosperity of State’s technological capabilities, make the most of regional researchers and professionals’ diverse capabilities and that combine information technologies.

Written by Moroni Arellano (Communication and Diffusion, PIT-UAS), translated by Belem Ruiz (Edition and Communication, PIT-UAS).