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Workshop: “From Indicator to Instrument: The Contribution of Innovation Surveys to Public Policy Making”
Montevideo, September 17-18, 2009

Program

Organized by: National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII), Uruguay Ibero-American Science and Technology Indicators Network (RICYT) - CYTED Sponsored by: International Development Research Centre (IDRC), of Canada Ibero-American Science,Technology and Society Observatory, of the University Higher Studies Centre of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) Spanish International Development Cooperation Agency (AECID)

Supported by: Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Venue: Hotel NHColumbia - Montevideo, Uruguay

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE As the title indicates, the Workshop’s main objective is to rethink innovation indicators in the Latin-American region and look into their current and potential use as policy inputs. About a decade ago, RICYT developed and published its “Bogotá Manual” (RICYT/COLCIENCIAS, 2000), which serves as guideline to measure innovation and as adaptation ofthe Oslo Manual to the different realities of countries in the region. The manual was organized around three questions: Why measure innovative processes? What to measure? and How to go about it? Today, we deem it both relevant and timely to go over these questions and add a new one to this debate on measuring innovation in the region: How to transform/use the data collected to inform public policymaking and evaluation?

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Day 1 – Thursday, September 17
8:30 to 9:00 am: Registration of Participants 9:00 to 10:30 am:

Opening of Workshop
Speakers: • María Simón, Secretary of Education and Culture, President of the Ministry Office for Innovation, Uruguay (to confirm) • Fernando Amestoy, CEO ANII • Mario Albornoz, RICYT Coordinator Conference: • Mario Albornoz- RICYT Coordinator:“From mimicry to the innovative road”

10:30 to 10:45 am: Coffee Break 10:45 to 12:30:

Session 1 – Using innovation surveys in the making of science, technology & innovation policies: the European case
As from the early 90s, Europe has been systematically applying innovation surveys and has therefore become the leading region in such field. Therefore, European countries already have a significantproduction of indicators and studies on the innovation processes of their companies. However, Arundel (2006) looks into the use of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) results for policy making and evaluation in OECD countries and points to the significant gap between producing data and using data in policy making.
Conference • Speaker: Anthony Arundel- UNU-MERIT

Ronda de Preguntas y Debate• Moderator: Fernando Perini- IDRC

12:30 to 2:00 pm: Lunch

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Session 2– Measuring innovation in Latin America today
The first few attempts to measure innovation processes in Latin-American and Caribbean countries were initially applied in the late 80s, though it was at the beginning of the year 2000 that the application of Innovation Surveys was streamlined throughoutthe region. At that time a manual was developed and published to measure innovation in developing countries: the Bogotá Manual. In view of the time elapsed and of the accumulated experience since the Manual was first launched, it is high time we opened a debate on the measurement of innovation processes in Latin-American countries and the main challenges faced today.
Panel: Presentations andDebate Moderator: • Monica Salazar – Colombian Science & Technology Observatory Speakers: • Guillermo Anlló – ECLAC Office in Buenos Aires: “Innovation: Going beyond R&D. Ibero-American evidence stemming from innovation surveys: building competitive business strategies” • Diana Suárez – REDES Group, Argentina: "Between being comparable and being useful: innovation indicators and ICT policy...