- Argentina - Portal oficial de promoción de la República Argentina
Companies, universities and official entities are increasingly gathering to build productive networks aimed at promoting economic development and the interaction among ventures.
If there is an attribute to define the world of technology, it is certainly the fast pace at which new businesses are created. These companies generally begin operating as SMEs and are thought of as highly effective when it comes to providing a quick solution to society ´s specific needs.
Furthermore, they are regarded as high value added undertakings calling for the presence of highly trained human resources, which thus gives rise to quite an enticing corporate, social value and profitability. The SMEs sector accounts for 400 million dollar exports and 70% of this industry operates within the City of Buenos Aires. Nevertheless, exports have also been generated nationwide over the last years.
Due to all of the above mentioned features, Argentina has long been pushing to get numorous governmental entities and corporate associations to implement measures and incentives intended to enable and promote growth within this niche.
One of the cornerstones of the public policies fostering enterprise innovative practices is the promotion and consolidation of a local or regional productive network. This is reflected by several proposals carried out by companies, universities and official entities. As a matter of fact, they use different interaction mechanisms to develop a collective company structure that may set up a network, consortium, group, block, chain or productive structure. Thus, they seek to increase the benefits deriving from every entrepreneurship initiative and the overall welfare of the region.
In Argentina, Interactive environments, such as technology or scientific parks, or other incubators are playing an increasingly major role in encouraging local development, promoting the establishment of high-tech enterprises, or creating bonds between them and the traditional industry.
Also, in Argentina, these business cooperative clusters are gaining ground as innovative practices aimed at enhancing competitiveness, crowding in investments and improving national and international business relationships.
In this regard, several national and provincial laws as well as municipal resolutions currently in place have devised special systems aiming at creating, developing and installing new technology industries in Parks, Incubators, Free Trade Zones, neighbourhoods, etc.
In fact, the magnitude of such a thrust is so far-reaching that it is useful to revise some of the specific benefits that were derived:
In this regard, the most recently launched incentive program was the creation of the ICT area conceived as a “priority” for the 1500 annual Phd fellowships to be granted by the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), regarded as the top scientific research organization.
