Inventar Peru

Inventar is an organization dedicated to promoting inventiveness as a tool to improve competitiveness and the economy of Peru, through industrial and technological progress.

We recognize the inventor as an agent of development, and encourage his professionalization. We seek to create a new paradigm through which poor people no longer rely on foreign solutions to their problems, but instead generate their own development through technological solutions that are appropriate, needs-based, and that nurture creative talent.

1) How do you support young inventors?

We carry out workshops as well as science and inventions activities in schools to foster the interest of children and youth in this issues, and to stimulate their creativity. We work with all of the youth, not only with those that are inventors, but when we identify talented young inventors we provide them with information and training about the inventive process.

2) How does a young person participate in your programs?

Our strategy is to reach young people through schools. We take advantage of schools space and time because we want to incorporate our approach in the Curricula. Another way young people can take part is by registering in our website, this way they can have access to the following benefits:

Manuals to build educational inventions (teaching and learning materials)

Online training about patents and intellectual property

Training on how to develop good quality prototypes

Operational Plan for inventors

3) What makes your organization unique?

We could say that our organization is innovative (although I don´t know if “unique”) because we work on the field of inventions with a simultaneous double focus: social and commercial. Social (beneficiaries = the community), because we believe that inventive capacity is a competitive advantage for a nation. However, poor countries do not take advantage of it and loads of talent it lost for lack of support; and commercial (beneficiaries = inventors), because we consider fundamental to learn to generate profits from inventions. We promote the inventor as a development agent, but we also promote his/her economic well being and professionalization.

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