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This report discusses opportunities for Canada to advance prosperity beyond economic recovery from the recent recession:
1) While Canada's economy is improving after the 2008-2009 recession, lagging productivity remains a hurdle to closing the prosperity gap with the US.
2) The report outlines a 2020 Prosperity Agenda focused on strengthening attitudes, investments, motivations, and structures (AIMS) to encourage innovation and competition.
3) Actions proposed include continuing to invest in education, lowering business taxes, improving innovation policy, and strengthening international trade to enhance Canada's innovative capacity and competitiveness.
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Chile has experienced strong economic growth in recent decades. It has a population of 16.3 million people and GDP of $145 billion in 2006. Chile has a highly educated workforce, with over 90% completing secondary education. Chile also has a very attractive business environment, ranking highly in indexes for ease of doing business and competitiveness. Its sound economic fundamentals and policies have contributed to continued economic expansion and stability.
Description of the current state of the Interent in Chile.
Sergio Godoy, professor from the Catolic University of Chile.
Lecture given at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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Todays Innovation, Tomorrows Prosperity November 2010Colin McKillop
This report discusses Ontario's prosperity and productivity gaps compared to international peers. It finds that Ontario lags behind in productivity, which accounts for most of the prosperity gap. Innovation is highlighted as imperative for Ontario's prosperity. The report sets a 2020 agenda to close these gaps through attitudes that encourage innovation, investments in education and technology, and maintaining tax changes that motivate innovation.
Canada’s global competitiveness ranking up another spot to 9th.World Economic Forum rankings indicate improvement in the area of Canada’s economic environment and business sophistication. Our major improvement opportunity continues to be in strengthening the abilities of our businesses to compete on the basis of innovation and uniqueness. In the Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010 released today by the World Economic Forum, whose Canadian partner is the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity, results for Canada in the rankings over 2008’s results were positive. Canada moved up from 10th in 2008 to 9th in 2009 building on a jump from 13th in 2007 on the Forum’s "Global Competitiveness Index".
This report discusses opportunities for Canada to advance prosperity beyond economic recovery from the recent recession:
1) While Canada's economy is improving after the 2008-2009 recession, lagging productivity remains a hurdle to closing the prosperity gap with the US.
2) The report outlines a 2020 Prosperity Agenda focused on strengthening attitudes, investments, motivations, and structures (AIMS) to encourage innovation and competition.
3) Actions proposed include continuing to invest in education, lowering business taxes, improving innovation policy, and strengthening international trade to enhance Canada's innovative capacity and competitiveness.
CORFO is the Chilean Economic Development Agency founded in 1939 to promote Chile's economic development through investment, innovation, and competitiveness. CORFO oversees various programs aimed at generating economic growth, including promoting inward investment and supporting domestic companies. It provides financial incentives such as grants and tax incentives to attract technology-intensive foreign investment and support innovation projects.
Human Capital and the National Innovation Strategy for Competitiveness / The ...Innovum
This document discusses Chile's national innovation strategy for competitiveness. It notes that Chile has experienced strong economic growth but still lags behind developed countries in terms of income levels. To continue growing and become a developed country, Chile must transition to a knowledge-based economy focused on innovation. The strategy proposes increasing funding for research and development, providing tax incentives for company innovation, and creating a National Innovation Council to coordinate efforts and focus on key industry clusters with high growth potential.
Chile has experienced strong economic growth in recent decades. It has a population of 16.3 million people and GDP of $145 billion in 2006. Chile has a highly educated workforce, with over 90% completing secondary education. Chile also has a very attractive business environment, ranking highly in indexes for ease of doing business and competitiveness. Its sound economic fundamentals and policies have contributed to continued economic expansion and stability.
Description of the current state of the Interent in Chile.
Sergio Godoy, professor from the Catolic University of Chile.
Lecture given at the Oxford Internet Institute.
This document provides the 8th annual report from the Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress. It discusses how Ontario can navigate through the current economic recovery by focusing on attitudes, investments, and motivations. Specifically, it recommends encouraging innovation and competition, continuing to invest in education and skills training, and ensuring the recently announced tax changes are implemented to benefit Ontarians. The report also analyzes Ontario's productivity gap compared to other regions and how investing in talent, technology, and trade can help close this gap over time.
This document provides information about opportunities for outsourcing digital marketing services and expanding into Latin American markets through Chile. Specifically, it outlines how Chile has a highly qualified, lower-cost workforce and infrastructure that make it an attractive location for outsourcing. It also notes that Latin America is a fast-growing region for internet users and digital marketing, providing market potential. Finally, it positions Chile as a good base for serving both the Latin American and global markets due to its qualifications and strategic location.
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Chile has experienced strong economic growth and stability over the past two decades. The Chilean government's main goal is for Chile to become a developed economy and innovation hub for Latin America by the end of the decade. To achieve this, Chile provides support through CORFO and InnovaChile to bring new ideas to market, create an entrepreneurial culture, and increase R&D investment. Chile has also signed many free trade agreements giving it access to a market of 4.2 billion people, and aims to transition its economy by adding value in areas like natural resources, food, and niche technologies.
1) Shifting wealth in developing countries over recent decades has brought both opportunities and risks for social cohesion. While some countries have seen significant economic growth and reductions in poverty, inequalities have also increased in many places.
2) Maintaining social cohesion during periods of rapid growth requires proactive policy measures. Key policy areas include fiscal policy, employment and labor market institutions, social protection, health, education and ensuring participation in policymaking.
3) Policy reviews of social cohesion can help countries assess current status, monitor progress, and improve policy coordination across areas like fiscal, employment, education and social policies to foster more inclusive growth and shared prosperity.
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Chile has established programs like CORFO and Startup Chile to boost entrepreneurship. CORFO, founded in 1939, provides financing for startups but mostly helped small, local businesses. Startup Chile, founded in 2010, provides seed funding and visas to attract global entrepreneurs but startups often leave after the program. While these programs had some impact, Chile needs to focus on building scalable startups in specific fields and connecting them to enterprises and investors to truly establish itself as Latin America's innovation hub.
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1. The document discusses how non-profit organizations and ICT can work together to promote human development through innovation.
2. It provides examples of ICT innovations in developing countries that improved access to education, healthcare and markets.
3. The document argues that non-profits can encourage responsible and sustainable use of ICT, and open new markets, while ICT companies can help non-profits deploy technologies for human development goals.
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Chile has experienced strong economic growth and stability over the past two decades. The Chilean government's main goal is for Chile to become a developed economy and innovation hub for Latin America by the end of the decade. To achieve this, Chile provides support through CORFO and InnovaChile to bring new ideas to market, create an entrepreneurial culture, and increase R&D investment. Chile has also signed many free trade agreements giving it access to a market of 4.2 billion people, and aims to transition its economy by adding value in areas like natural resources, food, and niche technologies.
1) Shifting wealth in developing countries over recent decades has brought both opportunities and risks for social cohesion. While some countries have seen significant economic growth and reductions in poverty, inequalities have also increased in many places.
2) Maintaining social cohesion during periods of rapid growth requires proactive policy measures. Key policy areas include fiscal policy, employment and labor market institutions, social protection, health, education and ensuring participation in policymaking.
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Chile has established programs like CORFO and Startup Chile to boost entrepreneurship. CORFO, founded in 1939, provides financing for startups but mostly helped small, local businesses. Startup Chile, founded in 2010, provides seed funding and visas to attract global entrepreneurs but startups often leave after the program. While these programs had some impact, Chile needs to focus on building scalable startups in specific fields and connecting them to enterprises and investors to truly establish itself as Latin America's innovation hub.
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The Council for Competitiveness and Innovation (CCI) was established in 2011 to improve Trinidad and Tobago's global competitiveness and foster innovation. The CCI is charged with significantly improving the country's competitiveness ranking, doubling non-energy exports, increasing research and development spending to 1% of GDP, and raising awareness of innovation. To achieve these goals, the CCI is working with the private sector and government to enhance business sophistication, technological readiness, and innovation capabilities in existing companies and develop national policies on competitiveness and innovation.
Francis louis cci about the council - pp - v2 fml - 8-21 slides - 19 nov 12iGovTT1
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2. Chile has seen outstanding growth
and stability during the past two
decades.
Today’s challenge is to continue the
forward movement so that Chile can
reach greater levels of technological
sophistication and development to
contribute to the country's
consolidation of its IT, electronics,
mining, aquaculture, forestry, and
food industries.
Chile has set the stage for
development and innovation in Latin
America.
3. High Competitiveness
Ranking
Country
2010-2011
Ranking of
Switzerland 1
Competitiveness Sweden 2
2010-2011 Singapore 3
United States 4
30th place among 132 Germany 5
countries around the UK 12
world China 27
Chile 30
Chile has the most Estonia 33
competitive economy in Czech Republic 36
Latin America Thailand 38
Poland 39
Spain 42
Portugal 46
Nº 1
Italy 48
LATAM
India 51
Panama 53
Brazil 58
Source: World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org)
4. Free Trade Agreements
Market of 4.2 billion
Chile has 21 agreements with 58 countries
MERCOSUR European Union China U.S.A. Peru
Bolivia Venezuela Australia Colombia Japan Turkey
Cuba India Canada Korea Mexico
Ecuador P-4 Central America EFTA Panama
Represents 63% of
world population
(2010) Agreements Signed
Agreements Negotiated
Agreements under Negotiation
P4: Chile, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei
EFTA: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein
5. Main Goal of the Chilean Government:
A developed economy by the end of the decade
With a growth of 6% per year, Chile will reach a GDP per capita of US$
23,000 in 2020, similar to those already classified as developed countries.
GDP per capita 2010
PIB per capita 2010 48
(Miles de dólares, paridad de poder de compra)
(USD PPP Thousands)
39 40
35 35
33 34
29 29 29 30
27
25
22 22 23
18 19 19
16
14 14 14 15 15
12
10 11
9
7
Source: IMF
6. To transform Chile into an innovation and
entrepreneurial hub for Latin American
To achieve this Goal
- Bring new and innovative
ideas to market
- Create a culture for
innovation and
entrepreneurship
7. Informe
de Gestión
CORFO
15 Junio 2011
InnovaChile of CORFO
InnovaChile
of CORFO
Gobierno de Chile | Corporación de Fomento de la Producción – CORFO 7
8. CORFO
The Chilean Economic Development Agency, CORFO was
created in 1939.
Its main purpose is to help increase the competitiveness of the Chilean
economy and companies (especially SME’s):
• Improving access to long term financial resources and their managerial
capabilities, and
• Supporting technological innovation, through InnovaChile
• Promoting foreign investment and strategic alliances.
9. What do we look for?
Improve the country’s productivity
Increase the economy’s growth rate
10. President
National Innovation
Council
Chilean
Government
Ministry Of Economy Ministry Of Education Others*
Corfo Conicyt
InnovaChile Fondef Fondecyt
Companies Individuals Technological Institutes Universities
* Others: FIA, Millennium Program
11. InnovaChile
• Public Agency in charge of applying Chilean Innovation Policies to
increase competitiveness
• Operates as a matching fund, providing grants to companies and
technological centers who submit projects (demand driven)
• Nearly 55% of the total cost of projects is financed by private
companies
• The level of public financing provided by InnovaChile depends on:
• Risk level
• Innovation potential
• Economic potential and externalities
• Degree of collaborative effort
13. Main Areas of InnovaChile
Technical
Technology Corporate Innovative and Business
Entrepreneurship Advisory
Transfer Innovation Ecosystem
Services
14. Some 2011 figures
167.099 US$2.644
Million
Direct beneficiaries. 682 per day! Mobilized during 2011.
US$332 million with public funding,
and US$2.311 million leveraged.
Of the mobilized
91% Of beneficiaries
are SMEs
89% funds destined
to SMEs
15. Main Achievements
Main Achievements
• From 2001 to date, through Private Public alliances,
Chile has supported:
14 Genomics-related Programs (US$66 millions, 56%
public):
Fruits, Biomining, Forestry, Salmon, Wine, Rainbow Trout
17 Technological Consortiums (US$132 millions, 45%
public):
Forestry, Vineyards, wine, Fruits, Milk, Cancer , Chemistry of
natural products, Salmon Biotechnology, Animal Health,
Biomedicine, Aquaculture, Sheep, Potatoes, Honey, Lignocellulose’
Biofuels
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16. Main Achievements
• Since 2005, InnovaChile has
subsidized:
3,100 innovation projects, benefiting 9,500
Companies
The creation of over 400 companies
through seed capital
The launching of 24 R&D Centers and 110
Technology Transfer Nodes through out
the Country
19 incubators through out the country
26 International Market Prospection
Programs for exporting companies
10 Business Platforms for new markets
in Asia, Europe and the US
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18. • An accelerator program created by the Chilean government that seeks
to attract 1,000 high-potential global startups, to bootstrap their
startup using Chile as a platform to go global.
• Its goal is to foster the interaction between Chilean and global
entrepreneurs to strengthen the relationship between Chile and other
innovation hubs around the world.
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19. Attraction of
International Centers of Excellence
• Designed to facilitate the installation of
International Centers of Excellence in Chile.
– To create and maintain new capacities and
infrastructure in science and technology areas that
have an impact on Chilean main economic sectors
– Focused in generating results, new knowledge and
technological breakthroughs
– Establishing and promoting the development of local
skills, through alliances with Chilean entities,
technological and scientific research centers.
20. Global Connection Program
Seeks to support Chilean
entrepreneurs to kick off their
startups in a global environment
helping them to accelerate their
business in a world‐class
incubator/accelerator.
Oriented to place Chilean
startups in different market
environments around the world,
providing them with the proper
platform and support to globalize
their business.
21. Applied R&D Program
• Oriented to promote the collaboration
between Chilean and foreign R&D centers, to
make business and technological prospection
in order to formulate associative projects of
Innovation R&D
• Relevant for countries that have signed
International Science and Technology
Collaboration Agreements with Chile
• Finances aspects such as:
- Technological prospection
- International associate prospection
- Technological missions
- Internships
- Market and legal Studies
- Formulation of joint Innovation R&D projects
- International Assistance
22. Thanks!
www.corfo.cl
Gobierno de Chile | Corporación de Fomento de la Producción – CORFO