PERUMIN Hub 2025
The mining sector faces complex challenges that require more sustainable, collaborative solutions connected to real operational, territorial, and innovation needs. Without a good definition of challenges, innovators often arrive with proposals poorly aligned with the sector; without a good call, many solutions with potential fail to take off or find a clear path towards validation or scaling.
We led the coordination of PERUMIN Hub, the main open innovation program in mining in Peru. It was structured as a platform for mining companies to identify, characterize, and make their challenges visible, making it easier for innovators to arrive with more solid and mature proposals. In this fourth edition, the program had two lines of work: Innovations that take off, aimed at solutions seeking to validate for the first time in the field or having just validated in a mining company; and Youth who transform, aimed at university students with disruptive ideas to respond to the major challenges of the sector.
We designed and articulated an open innovation program that helped translate real challenges of the mining sector into clearer, international calls and better connection opportunities with innovators.
The program achieved one of the highest impacts of its kind in the country. It brought together 10 real challenges from 18 mining companies and facilitated the arrival of 140 proposals from private companies from 14 countries and 117 proposals from university students from 5 Latin American and Caribbean countries, involving 47 universities and higher education institutions and strengthening the positioning of the sector as a space that innovates in community and generates opportunities for validation, growth, and commercial takeoff.