Cooperación Internacional y Financiamiento de Actividades de Desarrollo Tecnológico en Colombia

Abstract

This work presents the outcomes of a characterization study about the relations that firms established in Colombia set up withinternational institutions from around the world (Europe, United States and Latin America), and at the same time, it analyses their implications for public policy and enterprise management. Particularly attention deserves the funding of Technological Development Activities (TDA), which include Capital Incorporated Technologies, Management Technologies, Transversal Technologies, R&D and Technological learning. This work also carries out a comparative study between firms that have international links for funding TDA and those that do not have this international links. This study includes data analyses using Multivariate Analysis such as Factor and Cluster Analysis. Data were obtained from the Second Colombian Innovation Survey, which was applied in 2005 to a sample of 6222 firms. Among other results, the study shows that financial resources for firms’ R&D activities come mainly from national sources, with an important participation of international financial resources for Technological Learning Activities. Regard to the firms that have participated in international funding of TDA, the study found that only 1% of the total firms have employed at least one funding source, showing a clear evidence of the lack of international participation of the studied firms.