Gabriel Dutrenit, the keynote speaker at the opening session of the Forum of the Latin American Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence Building Systems (LALICS) taking place at the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC), told her audience that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are still far from the appropriate level of scientific and technological investments that have led developed nations to succeed.
This lack of investment keeps their populations from having access to the best quality of life, said Dutrenit, a specialist in innovation economics. She said that in Latin America, governments have not been good at identifying investments in science and technology as a way of lowering poverty indexes. She said this is despite international statistics that indicate the direct tie between investments in science and the quality of life. She noted that generally speaking, private entities invest very little in science and technology alleging the uncertainties and economic instability relating to research and thereby leaving this responsibility to fall almost entirely on governments.
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LALICS
27 April 2017
