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We equip and connect ecosystem actors with capabilities to turn science into innovation and impact

We connect scientific research with industry, defense and society to drive a knowledge-based economy.

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Open innovation

We connect industry and defense challenges with solutions from academia.

Avante, PROA I+D and Desafío Fortis: open innovation programs that are part of Dual Hub.

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What we do

At Know Hub Chile, we help organizations bring science and technology into their activities, building their capabilities to turn knowledge into competitive advantages and high-impact solutions for society.

Services

We help organizations bring science and technology into their activities, acting as a strategic partner or providing specialized support.

We connect research with market needs

We work strategically with universities, R&D centers and research institutes committed to, and tasked with, turning their scientific findings into solutions for national development.

We solve organizations' challenges through science and technology

We connect the operational and strategic challenges of government, industry and defense with the country's most advanced science and technology, turning them into lasting capabilities to generate public goods, competitive advantages and strategic capabilities.

We help organizations monetize their technology assets

For public or private organizations, the Armed Forces or companies with their own technology developments that want to add value to them or take them to new markets, we turn their intangible developments into commercially valuable assets.
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Success stories

Science applied to real challenges.

  • Photio

    Know Hub Chile supported Photio in its transition from the lab to commercial validation.

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    El equipo de Photio en su laboratorio

  • MOV

    At Know Hub Ignition it advanced from an early technology readiness level (TRL 2) to validation in a safe environment (TRL 7).

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    Silvana Herrera, fundadora y CEO de MOV

  • Acústica Marina

    Know Hub Chile supported Acústica Marina through the Avante Challenge, helping validate and develop its hydroacoustic technology.

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    Una integrante de Acústica Marina a bordo de una embarcación

  • Bluera

    Know Hub Chile supported Bluera through the Ignition program, helping it move from technology validation to commercial scale-up and the structuring of industrial projects.

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    El equipo de Bluera en su stand

  • Innercore

    Know Hub Chile drove Innercore's development through its open innovation program Desafío Avante 2020, supporting the validation of its automated analysis technology and its later scale-up toward strategic defense applications and the civilian market.

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    Dos integrantes de Innercore

  • Desafío FORTIS

    Know Hub Chile co-designed a challenge with Lockheed Martin to adapt and validate in Chile the FORTIS exoskeleton, developed by the multinational to assist with heavy lifting tasks.

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    Equipos del Desafío Fortis junto al exoesqueleto FORTIS

  • Bioproc

    Through the Ignition program, Know Hub Chile supported Bioproc in validating its business model and exploring international markets, with specialized mentoring from experts at the University of California, Riverside.

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    El equipo de Bioproc con su reconocimiento de Know Hub Ignition

  • Soquimat

    Know Hub Chile supported Soquimat in developing its business model and commercial strategy through the Ignition program. As one of the three winning startups of the fourth edition, it earned an international immersion stage to advance its path to market.

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    Dos integrantes de Soquimat muestran latas de la pintura T-COAT
Dual Hub by Know Hub

Dual Hub

Dual-use innovation is the development of science- and technology-based technologies designed to meet the demands of the civilian market and the requirements of the defense and security sector at the same time.

Through Dual Hub, the first permanent dual-use innovation platform in Latin America, created in 2019, Know Hub Chile provides defense institutions, industry, academia and science- and technology-based startups (EBCTs) with capabilities, methodologies and standards. This effort turns scientific knowledge into lasting strategic capabilities for Chile.

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500+

Participants

40+

Institutions

4

Summits

2019

Founded

About us

Know Hub Chile is a corporation that acts as a strategic enabler, connecting the science, technology, knowledge and innovation (CTCI) ecosystem and providing it with capabilities and standards to turn scientific and technological knowledge into innovation that contributes to the country's development.

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Portfolio

Discover the technologies that have graduated from Know Hub Chile's programs and from our partner universities. Teams of researchers and entrepreneurs we have prepared to transfer their science to the market and expand their impact on society.

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225 innovations in the portfolio

  • Digital Health 39
  • Biotechnology 27
  • Artificial Intelligence 27
  • Instrumentation Systems 19
  • Energy 17
  • Advanced Analytics 15

Testimonials

Know Hub Chile's support goes beyond validating the technology: it builds commercial partnerships, sees the solution's potential and defines a solid business strategy.

Matías Moya

Matías Moya

CEO, Photio

Thanks to Know Hub Ignition, we realized that our technology had a very powerful social impact and could directly improve people's quality of life.

Silvana Herrera

Silvana Herrera

Founder and CEO, MOV Design

The FORTIS Challenge showed us the magnitude of designing a world-class device and proved that the science we do in the regions has the human talent and infrastructure to successfully reach the global technology frontier.

Guillaume Sérandour

Guillaume Sérandour

Director of the LeufüLab Laboratory, Universidad Austral de Chile

Having application-oriented training and Know Hub by our side on a path we have traditionally rarely taken lets us look at science from a different perspective.

Armando Blanco

Armando Blanco

Associate Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Universidad Austral de Chile

Avante has been a turning point in bilateral collaboration by proposing innovative solutions to real operational needs. These joint efforts have laid the groundwork for future cooperation, helping to build security, resilience and autonomy through technological innovation.

Sonia Wolff

Sonia Wolff

Associate Science Director, ONR Global

Working with Know Hub allows us to jointly guide Latin American entrepreneurial talent as they create their technology-based companies, connecting their innovations with international markets and reciprocal soft-landing networks.

Silvia Mora

Silvia Mora

Associate Director of Engagement and Fund Management, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Our collaboration with Know Hub Chile allows us to strengthen our ties with the academic and technology ecosystem, contributing to knowledge transfer, solution validation and the identification of new co-development opportunities.

Gastón Elsholz

Gastón Elsholz

Technology and Innovation Manager, Raylex S.A.

News

Explore our news and content on how we connect science and technology with their application in new products, technologies and startups.

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Funded by:

Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología, Conocimiento e Innovación y ANID, Gobierno de Chile