Research & Innovation
From The Report: Colombia 2017
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Despite the difficulties in securing long-term financing for research, Colombia’s innovation environment is starting to benefit from structural measures. Efforts to raise IT usage in companies and households is supporting innovation efforts and galvanising domestic entrepreneurs. Modernisation schemes targeting industrial clusters are helping to develop a culture of innovation within established firms. However, plans to boost expenditure on research and development (R&D) activities are falling behind stated objectives. As the support for entrepreneurship activities becomes more robust, linking it to national research activities remains a challenge. This chapter contains an interview with Marta Losada, President, Antonio Nariño University.

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Growth by ingenuity: Support for entrepreneurship combined with the upgrade of industry puts innovation at the centre of economic expansion
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Despite the difficulties in securing long-term financing for research, Colombia’s innovation environment is starting to benefit from structural measures. Efforts to raise IT usage in companies and households is supporting innovation efforts and galvanising domestic entrepreneurs. Modernisation schemes targeting industrial clusters are helping to develop a culture of innovation within established firms. However, plans to boost expenditure on research and development (R&D) activities…

Interview

Resource development: Marta Losada, President, Antonio Nariño University, on biotechnology and the need to implement new financing schemes
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Interview: Marta Losada What role does the private sector play in furthering research and development (R&D)? MARTA LOSADA: Colombia’s present business expenditure in R&D (BERD) is extremely low at only 0.043% of GDP in contrast to the OECD average of 1.62% of GDP in 2014. This must change dramatically. National industry needs to put more significant effort into R&D. It is clear that although Colombian GDP per capita has increased considerably over the past decades, the BERD indicator…