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Technology Watch and Competitive Intelligence as a strategy to promote the development of innovation systems in sub-regions of Antioquia (Colombia)
Juan Manuel Montes Hincapie1, Pere Escorsa Castells2, Joaquim Lloveras Maciá3
1 Ph.D (c) in Technological Innovation Projects. Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. juan.manuel.montes@upc.edu
2 President of IALE Technology, Barcelona, Spain. escorsa@iale.es
3 Coordinator of Ph.D in Technological Innovation Projects. Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. J.Lloveras@upc.edu
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Developing countries are using a mix of Competitive Intelligence and Technology Watch to ensure a regional development. Some of them are moving to a cluster policy to create more added value products from their natural resources (Dou H., Manullang S., Dou JM., 2007). Also this trend associated with a collective and interactive learning process, accumulation and application of knowledge, involving officers linked to technological development and production of goods and services have to permit the development of a strategy to promote development of innovation systems in the regions.
Under this context is developing this doctoral research, which search to contribute to the development of innovation systems in sub-regions of Antioquia (Colombia). Antioquia is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, that in their dynamic growth based on your strategic planning process (PLANEA: http://planea-antioquia.org/) and your internal innovation program has identified as one of the key factors in the building of a model local and regional development, inclusive, fair, competitive and sustainable, the development of an innovation system that is based on the local potentials and capacities.
Despite the progress made in planning and strengthening of the Regional Innovation System in Antioquia even there is no culture of the implementation of the Technology Watch and Competitive Intelligence on a sustained program to support the development of innovation systems in sub-regions. The Innovation program for Antioquia collects lines on which have to promote the technological development of the department, but the greatest concentration of this development historically has been in the capital (Medellin and your metropolitan area), leaving behind immense opportunities for creating new industries in the sub-regions, through the generation of products with higher added value from their natural resources. On the other hand, the economic opening in Colombia since 1990, the multiple integration agreements (CAN, Mercosur, G3,...) And the free trade agreements that currently we have with Canada, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela, Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala and Honduras, are scenarios that facilitate the opening of new markets for Colombian products in which the sub-regions that take advantage of their comparative advantages will play an important role.
In this sense this research is development a Strategy Regional for Technology Watch and Competitive Intelligence to exploit scientific and technological infrastructure of the department, allowing to the government, enterprises, social networks, and institutions of education and research involved in the develop sub-regional of the department of Antioquia, advantage data, information, knowledge and intelligence (Escorsa P., Rodriguez M., 1998) updated and higher value for the decision makers for to promote innovation systems. The availability of free patent databases on the internet, offers the opportunity of opening the door of patent information not only to patent specialists, but also to many other groups, such as researchers, decision makers, potential inventors and students (Dou H., 2004), this is a big think tank for to promote and to improve technological innovations. The format, discussion, and interface with decision makers are then of primary importance. A center that only focuses on exact sciences and technology will no be able to achieve all the necessary steps to develop Competitive Intelligence (Ifan H.K, Dou JM., Manullang S. Dou H., 2004). On this approach Matheo Patent (http://www.matheo-patent.com/) has been used as tool of help for development of one phase of this research. This tool has allowed the search, retrieve and analyse patent data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (Esp@cenet).
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Matheo Software for their help during the realization of this work, especially by providing various versions of the Matheo Patent software to perform this phase of the research. |
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