In recent years, the innovation has gained great prominence, to the point that it has become an important topic in the curriculum to undergraduate and graduate level. The challenge of training innovation professionals adds up to another challenge that impacts the activity of mining: understanding mining in a territorial context, with implications for identifying and managing risk that each project has on its surroundings. If you ever engineering schools have taken to deliver mainly technical knowledge to their students, today those skills need to be complemented with aspects that are closer to the social sciences and that are often central to the time of mining.