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- Title: Mexico's Innovation Cha-Cha: The Country Has Taken Some Encouraging Steps Toward Strengthening Its Science and Technology Capacity, But It Retreats when It Comes to Providing Adequate Resources and Following Through on Implementation (Global Innovation)
- Author : Issues in Science and Technology
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 524 KB
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Like many nations, Mexico has been making an effort to increase its investment in R & D and in scientific manpower. But although Mexico's investment in science has grown significantly in absolute terms during the past few decades, the country still lags far behind others. In 2004, nations that are part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on average invested 2.3% of their gross domestic product (GDP) in R & D. Mexico's R & D investment in 2004 was less than 0.4% of GDP, a ratio that has remained essentially constant during the past decade. Why has Mexico been so slow to invest in R & D? What are the implications of this? And what can be done about it? Historically, economic activity in Mexico was largely based on exploiting its abundant natural resources, with oil production accounting for an important share of GDP. In addition, its economy was closed and heavily regulated. As a result, until recently, Mexican companies have had little incentive to innovate and did not perceive the need to invest in R & D. Similarly, science and technology (S & T) was largely absent from the government agenda.