Guía para el diseño de políticas públicas de fomento a la innovación para regiones de países emergentes

The main objective of this thesis is to develop a guide for the design of public policies and other tools to promote innovation that adapt to social and economic reality of regions in emerging countries. This guide should help increase the scientific activity and the development of new products and new technology in these regions. Two regional innovation models in Europe and one in Latin America have been studied to learn from their experience in the design and application of public policies to increase innovation and identify their best practices so they could be adapted and redesigned for regions in emerging countries. In Europe, the regions of Stockholm, Sweden and Catalonia, Spain, have been chosen and in Latin America Nuevo León, Mexico. In these selected regions key actions that have created a real in economy and culture impact have been identified for its possible application in other emerging countries regions. It is difficult to define public policies that can assure success in the development of a Regional Innovation System. There are many intervening factors in the innovation capacity of a region. The cultural, political and economic differences play a key role in the success or failure of R&D public policies. However several criteria have been defined for the development of innovation and R&D policies based in the lessons learned and conclusions obtained from the regions studied. These would be a good starting point for whatever region in an emerging country that wants to initiate their transformation to a more knowledge intensive region. Through the analysis of the information presented by the case studies of Stockholm, Sweden; Catalonia, Spain and Nuevo León, Mexico, 6 lines for the development of specific R&D policies have been identified in this thesis: An innovation plan development; new ways of financial support creation and promoting; a new innovation culture creation; a continuous and constant human resources education promotion; collaboration networks generation and finally a ...