President Luis Abinader presented “The National Innovation Policy 2030: Future-proofing the DR” at the Ministry of Foreign Relations auditorium on 31 May 2022. The Abinader Administration Innovation Cabinet developed the plan. Bartolomé Pujols, who had run for mayor of Santo Domingo in the 2020 municipal election, is the executive director of the Abinader Administration Innovation Cabinet.
President Luis Abinader announced his government seeks to allocate 1% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to innovation, research and development to improve local production and create new jobs.
“This National Innovation Policy 2030 that we present today has been built through a broad citizen participation process that involved more than 3,500 people and public, private and academic organizations,” said the President.
“We have set the goal of increasing 1% of GDP in innovation, development and research; the creation and capitalization of the Innovation Support Fund (FAI), the creation of a national network of public-private Incubators for the promotion of innovative work in all corners of the country,” said the President.
At the event, Bartolomé Pujals spoke of the actions that will be undertaken in the country to back creative, innovative ideas and entrepreneurs. As part of the plan, traditional high schools are being transformed into polytechnics and scientific high schools.
The plan has the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Dominican chapter of the Project Management Institute.
The government seeks to create the National System of Innovation and Digital Development and will submit a draft bill to Congress to create the General Innovation and Digital Development Agency and a National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence.
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1 June 2022