CANACINTRA Leon opens the CREATIVIKA innovation node

In order to encourage competitiveness and the development of the sectors with the vision to innovate and enter toward Industry 4.0, the Innovation Node CREATIVIKA opened its doors to support small and medium companies (MSMEs9 during this process.

This enclosure has the objective of being a connection point that coordinates the needs of companies with solutions in the innovation ecosystem with the implementation of projects in a collaborative manner among companies, educational institutions and training, and research centers.

To create this project the Optical Research Center (CIO, by its Spanish initials) and the National Chamber of the Transformation Industry Leon Delegation (CANACINTRA Leon) joined efforts to create a center oriented to MSMEs innovation by directly impacting in functional areas such as design-product development, marketing, administration, production and talent generation.

Julio Jaramillo Delgado, CEO of CREATIVIKA, said that among the challenges the Center has is making a change in mentality oriented toward innovation, the integration of SMEs in the innovation route and socialize new trends that strength the industry.

“The Node is a space where companies can find solutions, innovation is a transversal axis applied in products, processes, and people. A change has to be made in mentality from Direction to create an innovation route,” he said.

For CREATIVIKA creation there was an investment of 10 million pesos allocated by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Higher Education (SICES, by its Spanish initials) and by the industrial companies in the region.

Since the settling of the Innovation Node was announced more than 600 people from almost 400 companies have been trained, in subjects like the new business 4.0 models, talent management, product life cycle, industrial innovation route, intellectual property, human resources, among others.

There are four work lines in CREATIVIKA: Talent Development, Coworking, Innovation Route, Simulation and Prototyping. They have the possibility of teaching workshops to 160 people in the training area, while in the project development part 20 people can be supported.

They have 5 CAD computers in the Additive Industry Laboratory, 1 PNY Workstation, the possibility of offering 300 educational licenses in SolidWorks, one tridimensional printer, 3D scanner, a HTC Station Vive 2 Oculus Go and one Interactive Short Shot Cannon.

The companies Tejas El Aguila, Herrajes Amital and Sondern Ingenieria are already being supported in the development of projects like scanning and 3D printing of products, fittings prototyping, and design.

Jose Enoch Castellanos Ferez, national president of CANACINTRA, detailed that according to innovation and technological development public policies, which are working in Zacatecas, Saltillo and in Leon.

“The particularity of the Leon Node is that it has a business ecosystem that will develop very well due to the economic diversification it has and the quality of the business sector,” he noted.