Innovation in Chile

Chile

The National Council for Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation for the Development of Chile (CTCI) has the fundamental objective of promoting the sustainable development of the country through science and innovation, establishing a strategic framework that promotes the creation of value and resilience in the different productive sectors.

IDOM has developed a study entitled “Development of Strategic Orientations for the Promotion of Technological Trajectories that Contribute to Sustainable Productive Development“.

The study examines the main technological areas that can serve as resilience tools in the face of the global changes that countries face today. It also examines the technological trajectories that could strengthen this resilience in Chile’s main productive value chains. In addition, the analysis includes the barriers and difficulties that the country has faced in its technological development throughout its history.

The study has integrated the following phases:

• Identification of the main factors of global change that affect sustainable productive development through the compilation of relevant trends, extracted from foresight reports, technological agendas and strategic documents prepared by countries and international organizations.
• Definition of a set of technological domains that can strengthen economic resilience and contribute to Sustainable Productive Development (SPD). These technologies are considered critical because of their relevance for leading and emerging countries in technological development due to their potential impact on the transition to sustainable development, as well as the competitive advantages they could offer to those territories that lead their implementation.

Study on how technological development can improve the resilience of the main productive value chains in Chile. To this end, the impact of several global change factors on these chains was analyzed and the country’s capacities to face these changes were identified. It also proposed technological pathways to promote climate resilience in the future, based on the gaps identified at the national level.

The analysis has led to the identification of 8 strategic value chains in Chile. These are productive activities directly related to natural resources, such as minerals, soil, forests and the sea, and to phenomena, such as sunlight and wind, that form the basis of Chile’s economic activity.

Therefore, the global change factors that have the greatest impact on economic and productive activity are those related to climate change, especially extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent in the country. Given this situation, Chile is making significant efforts to promote the transformation of these production chains through the development and/or implementation of technologies.

IDOM has identified a number of technological pathways in which Chile can advance through endogenous R&D efforts as well as international partnerships.

IDOM has contributed its experience and knowledge in the definition of trend and prospective studies, as well as the capacity to integrate the vision of different actors of the Chilean knowledge and productive ecosystem in a study that integrates:

• An analysis of global trends and situations of change.
• A study of the main technologies to address these changes.
• An analysis of how technology can be the means that Chile uses to foster the resilience of its value chains.

Competitiveness & Innovation : Innovation : Territorial competitiveness