Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Executive summary
  • Origins of the study
  • Formal terms of reference
  • The use of the “functions of a national system of innovationâ€? as a policy framework
  • CONICYT and policy development
  • Policy issues emerging from the review
  • Background to the study
  • I. Introduction
  • Origins of the study
  • Formal terms of reference for the study
  • Structure of the report
  • II. Methodology
  • General approach
  • Use of the “functions of a national system of innovationâ€? as a policy framework
  • The concept of “stakeholdersâ€? in a national system of innovationStructure of the interview set
  • Limitations in the interview set
  • III. An overview of Chileâ€?s national system of innovation
  • Policy, resource allocation, and regulatory processes
  • IV. Governmental processes for science, technology, and innovation policy formulation
  • Financing mechanisms within the national system of innovation
  • V. CONICYT, FONDECYT, and FONDEF
  • CONICYT and the context for evaluating its main funding instruments
  • FONDECYT
  • FONDEF
  • CONICYT and its responsibility for policy developmentVI. Other financing bodies
  • Funds coordinated by PIT
  • Scholarships
  • Funding from the business sector
  • Funding by regional governments
  • Performance within the national system of innovation
  • VII. Principal science and technology institutions of the national system of innovation
  • The universities
  • Technological institutes
  • Firms in the private and public sectors
  • Human resource development
  • VIII. The development and use of human resources in the national system of innovation
  • Learning and the national system of innovationThe challenges of human resource development in Chile
  • Training and the role of technical colleges
  • Introducing new technological skills into enterprises
  • The availability of research management skills
  • Rejuvenation of the research community
  • The Ministry of Educationâ€?s program on quality and equity in higher education
  • Infrastructure
  • IX. Institutions providing the infrastructure for the national system of innovation
  • Standards and metrology
  • Intellectual property
  • Telecommunications and Internet infrastructureLibraries
  • Major facilities for big science â€? the observatories
  • Analysis of issues within the national system of innovation
  • X. Emerging issues
  • Institutional governance
  • The need for prioritization
  • Technology for small- and medium-scale enterprises
  • Promoting an Innovation “cultureâ€? in Chile
  • Support for the social sciences
  • Health research
  • XI. An innovation policy agenda for Chile
  • A first discussion of the findings
  • Introduction
  • The sessions
  • Concluding remarks