Case Name :      Fundacion Chile: Creating Innovative Enterprises

Authors :           Scott Tiffin, MacArena Carmona

Source:              Babson College

Case ID:             BAB089

Discipline :        Strategy

Case Length :    27 pages

Solution sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

Fundacion Chile shows how a private, nonprofit corporation contributes to technological innovation and develops productive links, adds value, and generates technological and human skills in a diversified economy based on natural resources. This enterprise, based on science and technology, was set up and grew to become a leading technology institution, recognized nationally and internationally. Poses the question of what strategy Fundacion, with its solid record of accomplishment in technology transfer and new business development, should follow to ensure its own future in a changing environment. To answer this question, students need to perform a SWOT analysis in light of Fundacion’s mission, which leads to a deeper issue–the institution’s replicability in other national environments.