Libro Blanco Vol I en Ingles

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 potential of the territories that have tobe reviewed every four years– that should constitute a natural space for harmonizing and making the regionalstrategies complementary with the National Innovation Strategy for Competitiveness.The work of the Council with the regions would be implemented through an annual session of the Councilin each of these macro-regions, represented (with the right to express opinions) by the Intendants of the regionsthat comprise it, as the most senior representatives of the Government in their region and the Presidents of theRegional Agency for Production Development. This meeting should be mainly dedicated to evaluating theprogress of the strategy in each macro-region and the dialogue with businessmen, 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 adjustments and improvementsthat mainly refer to clearly defining roles and overcoming the problems of coordination presently found, asoccurs in the national innovation systems of countries such as Finland, Germany and Norway, where there are alimited range of first-rate specialized implementation bodies.Corfo has been 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 scientific-technological centres. Meanwhile Conicyt is responsiblefor actions targeted at fostering the development of scientific and technological activity in the country andforming first-rate human resources for research, development and innovation.The task now is to review the role of each institution, denoted through its specific programs, dependingon the market failures that are to be corrected. Special concern is given to the case of public technologicalinstitutes, whose mission – in the opinion of this Council – must be focused on the production of clearlyidentified public goods that are necessary to favour the innovation process in companies and scientifictechnologicalcentres. For this, it must preferably channel resources to pure scientific research programs andprojects or targeted at high national impact objectives.111