International symposium: New Ideas, New Research
By Portal & Asociados

Aimed at entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, researchers, academic administrators, teachers, universities, engineers of Investigation and Development and patent lawyers in related sectors from all Latin America and the Caribbean, the symposium proposed a broad dialogue between the university and business community on new topics for building new agendas and lines of research.
It was organized a special alliance between the Francisco Gavidia University (UFG) and imaging and electronics company Ricoh Latin America.
"Patents are important for all countries, but El Salvador has a very low rate on the subject and in the academic world it is almost
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