Abstract

CASALET RAVENNA, Mónica  and  BUENROSTRO MERCADO, Edgar. La integración regional centroamericana en ciencia, tecnología e innovación: un nuevo desafío. Econ: teor. práct [online]. 2014, n.40, pp.165-193. ISSN 2448-7481.

This paper identifies the institutional and production capacities acquired in various Central American countries that promote national interaction and create the right conditions to generate agreements for building regional science, technology and innovation integration. Emerging networks driven by the region’s national policies, higher education institutions, research centers and production agents can contribute to creating a favorable environment for the formation of a regional innovation system. In order to enhance national and regional science, technological and innovation interaction, the development of a joint, collaborative work agenda will facilitate the creation of funding instruments for new activities and a regional fund. Such an agenda will also encourage the consolidation of the institutional environment capable of strengthening knowledge absorption capacities and coordination between science and the regional production sector, to generate a sustained innovation process.

Keywords : regional innovation system; Central American region; science; technology and innovation policies; absorption capacities; interinstitutional collaboration.

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