Latin America plays a crucial role in developing the Scientific Technology Park of Havana, as it fosters initiatives with countries in the region, according to directors of the center in an interview with Prensa Latina.

Havana, Cuba.- “Latin America has been the focal point of our strategy for the internationalization of services in the last two years and the first project we signed was in Brazil on a software factory,” told this news the vice president of the institution, Héctor Rodríguez.

He pointed out that they also established alliances with Chile, including advice and consulting for a company to carry out industrial transformations 4.0 in that country.

On the other hand, he said, they are currently working with Peru on training for the construction of a Scientific Park there, similar to that of Havana, while with Mexico they are working with the National Polytechnic Institute, focusing on programming.

Rodríguez responded to Prensa Latina’s questions at a press conference on the institution’s fifth anniversary and said that the PCTH also has collaborative relations with Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela in sectors such as Artificial Intelligence.

The Cuban institution is part of the Ibero-American Network of Scientific and Technology Parks and the National Innovation Council, which comprises 15 centers of the same conception from 13 countries.

It also belongs to the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) with which it collaborates on the Druida project, the general objective of which is to increase the use of digital education at a higher level.

Druida is a platform to promote joint scientific research among members of the Network on Digital Transformation in Higher Education, in the Ibero-American context.

It is fundamentally about promoting these ideas through research projects and postgraduate programs to contribute positively to developing this line of research and guide strategies and policies in favor of the Digital Transformation in Higher Education of the institutions and countries involved.

PCTH President Rafael Luis Torralbas explained that, in these five years, they achieved more than 630 business opportunities, 100 projects in incubation -one of them based in the ecosystem of the Alicante Science Park in Spain-, more than 30 companies with technological bases, and 18 contracts signed for export.

“We signed about 25 international agreements with eight nations, including Spain, China, Canada, and Russia, besides the Ecosystem of the Science and Technology Park is formally part of the AI Alliance Network of the BRICS+,” Torralbas highlighted.

The Havana Science and Technology Park is an innovation ecosystem for project development and the incubation of new Technology-Based Companies in the Information and Communications Technology sector.

It is also conceived as an organization that combines scientific research, technological innovation, high-level training, the development of products and services with high added value; as well as the commercialization of these, favoring export and import substitution. (PL)