Fundacion Chile is a private non-profit organization that fosters innovation. Their partners are the State of Chile and BHP-Billiton-Minera Escondida. At Fundación Chile they develop local and international networks, delivering high impact solutions in areas such as sustainability, human capital development, education, aquaculture, entrepreneurship, and foods.

Throughout their existence they have become a “do tank”, creating more than 65 companies in diverse productive areas in the country, promoting new industries and innovative products within the main natural resource areas of the country, generating value, quality, and new exports. They have shared the national purpose of delivering high-impact technological solutions through transference, adaptation, research, and development. This demanding task has required a joint-management with more than 160 international organizations -companies, governments and technological centers, among others- in 35 countries.