The partnership aims to increase commercialisation efforts.

US-based Purdue Research Foundation has struck a partnership with Universidad de Caldas in central Colombia, that will see the two working together closely in both the US and Colombia over the next several months to drive commercialisation efforts at Caldas.

Rogelio Ocampo, director of research at Universidad de Caldas, and Patricia Salazar, technology transfer office director at the university, spent three weeks at Purdue funded through a $170,000 grant from iNNpulsa and Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje, both Colombian government agencies…