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INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES

• Strong research activity with good performance in scientific publications
• Increase in investments in tech and innovation centres

POLICY PRIORITIES

• Establishing institutionalised frameworks for cooperation between research centres and
the business community, potentially with the contribution of tech transfer offices
• Collaborations between universities and reputable stakeholders and creation of a
mechanism to utilise industrial scholarships, with the ultimate objective of linking
research and business
• Strengthening the legal framework for the registration of innovation and patents
• Identifying potential innovation ecosystems of a local and regional dimension, in order
to attract foreign investment

PROPOSED ACTIONS

• Creation of a mechanism (platform/organisation/body) principally responsible for linking
universities to the country's productive fabric
• Forming collaborations between universities and reputable stakeholders and creating a
mechanism to utilise industrial scholarships in a manner binding to all three participants
(scholarship receiver, research centre, business) so there is accountability and checks and
balances towards the achievement of common goals