Libro Blanco Vol I en Ingles

TOWARDS A NATIONAL INNOVATION STRATEGY FOR COMPETITIVENESSVOLUME 1The work of this Council with the consulting firm is targeted at resolving the grave problem of not possessing information about thefuture (because it is expensive and there are no economic incentives for the private sector to supply it); to identify what public goods andproduction conglomerates with development potential are required to strengthen them; and, finally, the question is asked, if all of that isresolved, can failures of coordination in the private sector that hinder the development of these production networks still exist.Following this path, the selectivity of some policies arises spontaneously as a need derived from the prospection of the future itselfcarried out by independent bodies (this Council and the consultancy firm) and not as a pre-imposed requirement or one arising from thepressure of private interest sectors. Additionally, and as indicated in Chapter 3, independence in the selectivity of policies is ensuredthrough the broad diversity of the members of the Council, who, on the one hand, have been appointed as experts and not as sectoralrepresentatives and, on the other hand, in the event of some kind of sectoral pressure, it is neutralized through the presence of membersfrom different spheres of society.Therefore the study underway will determine the public goods that may be common to various sectors –for example, digitalconnectivity or road networks or human capital– and will also provide the most specific answers in each of the sectors, such as forexample, what type of human capital is required in aquiculture or in outsourcing or in mining services. Thus, selectivity is necessary,because neutrality implies losing all the specificity of advantages that the country has or can have and does not allow the adequatenetworks to be formed among production sectors.This is perfectly compatible with the proposal of this Council, namely that the long-run development strategy of Chile must be anamalgam that contains “specific or selective initiatives” in sectors with the greatest development potential, together with “general orneutral initiatives” based on platforms that are common to various sectors that give the country flexibility and the capacity to adapt.The final composition of specific and neutral policies arises strictly from the analysis made today together with the consultancyfirm, but it also requires the capacity over time to add and evaluate new information for refocusing the strategy. This is precisely –aspresented in Chapter 3– one of the fundamental tasks that will correspond to the Innovation Council in the future. Anticipating the futureand taking steps in this respect are the tasks of the strategic planning that the Presidency of the Republic has entrusted to this advisorygroup.143