Yachay Tech is a university with an academic program that keeps research and innovation as its cornerstones, thus achieving the development of a knowledge-based economy in Ecuador and the rest of Latin America.
Our activities are aimed at interdisciplinary activities, excellence and the combination of basic and applied sciences, thus promoting industrial, business and technological innovation.
Yachay Tech’s system is based on recruiting remarkable researchers and faculty with multidisciplinary and strategic agendas for the country, as well as the creation of internal institutional structures like University Based Research Centers (UBRC’s) and the Technology Transfer Center that support and enable both basic and applied research.
Additionally, Yachay Tech hosts the secretariat of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network – Andean Region chapter, a UN initiative to promote dialogue, academic mobility, and work among businesses, the government, the civil society and international organizations in order to share scientific solutions for sustainable development.