Libro Blanco Vol I en Ingles
Libro Blanco Vol I en Ingles
Libro Blanco Vol I en Ingles
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TOWARDS A NATIONAL INNOVATION STRATEGY FOR COMPETITIVENESSVOLUME 1Concerning its relationship with the Innovation Council, the proposal is that it define macro-regions –understood as groups of regions based on the structure and competitive pot<strong>en</strong>tial of the territories that have tobe reviewed every four years– that should constitute a natural space for harmonizing and making the regionalstrategies complem<strong>en</strong>tary with the National Innovation Strategy for Competitiv<strong>en</strong>ess.The work of the Council with the regions would be implem<strong>en</strong>ted through an annual session of the Councilin each of these macro-regions, repres<strong>en</strong>ted (with the right to express opinions) by the Int<strong>en</strong>dants of the regionsthat comprise it, as the most s<strong>en</strong>ior repres<strong>en</strong>tatives of the Governm<strong>en</strong>t in their region and the Presid<strong>en</strong>ts of theRegional Ag<strong>en</strong>cy for Production Developm<strong>en</strong>t. This meeting should be mainly dedicated to evaluating theprogress of the strategy in each macro-region and the dialogue with businessm<strong>en</strong>, players and local institutions,both public and private, linked to innovation.TWO PILLARS: CORFO AND CONICYTIn accordance with the above, the Council upholds the position of its first report, recognizing a publicinstitutional framework for innovation based on two main pillars: Corfo and Conicyt. This is concordant with thedecision of basing the strategy on the existing institutional framework, making adjustm<strong>en</strong>ts and improvem<strong>en</strong>tsthat mainly refer to clearly defining roles and overcoming the problems of coordination pres<strong>en</strong>tly found, asoccurs in the national innovation systems of countries such as Finland, Germany and Norway, where there are alimited range of first-rate specialized implem<strong>en</strong>tation bodies.Corfo has be<strong>en</strong> assigned the tasks of fostering innovation and technological diffusion. In other words,formulating all the initiatives that directly affect the incorporation of knowledge through new products in themarket, or of innovations in production processes within companies, including the pre-competitive innovationthat they carry out by themselves or through sci<strong>en</strong>tific-technological c<strong>en</strong>tres. Meanwhile Conicyt is responsiblefor actions targeted at fostering the developm<strong>en</strong>t of sci<strong>en</strong>tific and technological activity in the country andforming first-rate human resources for research, developm<strong>en</strong>t and innovation.The task now is to review the role of each institution, d<strong>en</strong>oted through its specific programs, dep<strong>en</strong>dingon the market failures that are to be corrected. Special concern is giv<strong>en</strong> to the case of public technologicalinstitutes, whose mission – in the opinion of this Council – must be focused on the production of clearlyid<strong>en</strong>tified public goods that are necessary to favour the innovation process in companies and sci<strong>en</strong>tifictechnologicalc<strong>en</strong>tres. For this, it must preferably channel resources to pure sci<strong>en</strong>tific research programs andprojects or targeted at high national impact objectives.111