Libro Blanco Vol I en Ingles

TOWARDS A NATIONAL INNOVATION STRATEGY FOR COMPETITIVENESSVOLUME 1investment requirements, the relationship of companies of the sector with the social environment and the capacity of placing its productsin international markets.• Sustainability of advantages: depending on which are the competitive advantages that serve as a base in each specificsector, this criterion explores how sustainable these can be in Chile and how they compare with that of our main competitor countries.• Regulatory framework: establishes how developed the “rules of the game” are for each sector; what the projectedimprovements are in the short-term; and what may be required to make this regulatory framework a catalyzing element of the potentialof each sector.4. What intervention is necessary by the State to capture the potential of the sector.Only once this step was fulfilled were the 11 specific sectors with the greatest growth potential identified (see figures), whichrequire a medium or low level of effort and where there would be a significant impact of public policies, measured in accordance with thekey requirements of improving competitiveness by sector.One of the first observations in this point is that, as expected, sectors that are consolidated today in the Chilean economy appearon the map, such as aquiculture or mining, and which still have room to develop; emerging sectors appear together with these in the areasof outsourcing and financial services, sectors that are highly intensive in public goods, given their dependence on knowledge, technology,information and education.The presence of these sectors has permitted the Council to draw two preliminary conclusions:i) that this exercise is fundamental for emerging sectors where the input of public goods is more significant, because without adynamic perspective such as the one guiding this study, the strategic perspective of the country could remain only in the sectors that arestrong today and which are based on static advantages, such as the endowment of natural resources.and ii) that the emergence of these emerging sectors in various areas of natural resources has only been possible thanks to theefforts made in the past by developing public goods –such as education, expressed through the quality of human capital– and that theseassets are a wealth that the country must value and increase in the future, to continue making room for the emergence of new sectorsthat do not exist today.Today Chile is not only rich in copper, but also in solid institutions, in macroeconomic stability, in citizens with skills for work andentrepreneurship, in social peace, and in knowledge of how the world works and how the country can participate in the new internationalwork division.147