Latin America is a key region in the development of the Scientific Technology Park of this capital, which promotes initiatives with countries in the region, reported the directors of the center.
“Latin America has been the focal point of our strategy for the internationalization of services in the last two years and the first project we signed was in Brazil on a software factory,” said the vice president of the Scientific Technology Park of Havana (PCTH), Héctor Rodríguez.
He also pointed out that they also established alliances with Chile which included advice and consulting for a company in this country in order to carry out industrial transformations 4.0.
On the other hand, he said, they are currently working with Peru on training for the construction of a Scientific Park there similar to that of Havana; while with Mexico they are working with the National Polytechnic Institute, focused on the field of programming.
Rodríguez answered Prensa Latina’s questions at a press conference for the institution’s fifth anniversary and added that the PCTH also has collaborative relationships with Panama, Colombia and Venezuela in sectors such as Artificial Intelligence.
The Cuban entity is part of the Ibero-American Network of Scientific and Technological Parks and the National Innovation Council, which includes 15 centers of the same conception from 13 countries.
It also belongs to the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) with which it collaborates on the Druida project, the general objective of which is to increase the use of digital education at a higher level. Druida is a platform to promote joint scientific research between members of the Network on Digital Transformation in Higher Education in the Ibero-American context.
It is fundamentally about promoting these ideas through research projects and postgraduate programs in order to positively contribute to the development of this line of research and guide strategies and policies in favor of Digital Transformation in Higher Education of the institutions and countries involved.
For his part, the president of PCTH, Rafael Luis Torralbas, explained that in this five-year period they achieved more than 630 business opportunities, 100 projects in incubation, more than 30 companies with technological bases, one of them based in the ecosystem of the Alicante Science Park in Spain; and 18 contracts signed for export.
We have reached some 25 international agreements with eight nations, including Spain, China, Canada and Russia, and the Science and Technology Park Ecosystem is formally part of the AI Alliance Network of the BRICS+,” Torralbas highlighted.
The Science and Technology Park of Havana is an innovation ecosystem for the development of projects and the incubation of new Technology-Based Companies in the Information and Communications Technology sector.
It is also conceived as an organization that combines scientific research, technological innovation, high-level training, the development of products and services with high added value; as well as the commercialization of these, favoring export and import substitution.
Source: www.citma.gob.cu
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