The Technological Innovation Park (PIT, Parque de Innovación Tecnológica) of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa) participates in this year’s edition of the National Week of the Entrepreneur (SNE, Semana Nacional del Emprendedor), which is taking place at Expo Bancomer Santa Fe, in Mexico City, began on Monday 5th and will end on Saturday 10th of October. Known by being the business event more important of its category, the SNE is organized by the Government of the Republic through the National Institute of the Entrepreneur (INADEM, Instituto Nacional del Emprendedor) and the Secretariat of Economy, its objective is to grant backing and concrete solutions to begin business or help the growth of micro, small and medium enterprises. It is foreseen that the President of the Republic make a tour by the stands of the SNE on Friday and, according to the INADEM, the event will gather almost seventy thousand visitors and eight hundred thousand people will virtually access to workshops and conferences.

As part of the third edition of the SNE, on its role as an INADEM’s makerspace, the PIT-UAS has an important intervention in the innovation ecosystem, through an exposition belonging to the 3D designing, modeling and printing field. In this way, the 3D printer developed by students in the facilities of the PIT-UAS is shown to the attendees; such printer is part of a project which purpose is to invent low-cost 3D printers, improving quality and rapidity so, in the future, these can be of common use, as if they were conventional paper printers.

Moreover, it is scheduled a conference to be imparted on Thursday 8th of October at 13:00 hours, by the Director of this UAS’ innovation center, MBA José Ramón López Arellano, which is titled “The advantages of technological innovation parks by integrating as makerspaces and their contribution to national development”. With his talk, López Arellano will make known the advantages institutions as the PIT-UAS provide by functioning as makerspaces, since contribute to achieve the success of the projects they host, thanks to the multidisciplinary scientific and technological development, besides applied innovation, contributions that also help to consolidate a sustainable socioeconomic development of national impact.

Finally, it should be noted that the PIT-UAS was accredited with the makerspace title on February 6th of this year, date on which the Direction of Innovation and Promotion of the INADEM recognized the PIT of our University as part of the Innovation Network, under cover of the Support Network to the Entrepreneur (within the framework of the 2.9 Call, Encouragement for the Prototypes Development through Workshops of High Specialization). Consequently, Park’s personnel takes care of generating contacts with entrepreneurs and the enterprising community of the country, also students and other attendees to the event, within the Maker Area of the SNE; this, with the purpose of sharing resources, knowledge and tools, based on incentives to creation and creativity, in order to create new products, focused in the fabrication of elements that unite the physical with the technological.

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