The Havana Science and Technology Park (PCTH) continues to grow, and at the end of the first semester, it hosts 85 research, development and innovation (R&D&I) projects from universities, companies, public and private institutions and teams of entrepreneurs, and 28 new projects from private and government technology-based companies.
Rafael Luis Torralbas Ezpeleta, president of this commercial company, told Granma that among the projects incubated, there are 56 underway, 16 in the closing phase and 13 closed with results.
Among them, the University of Computer Science stands out, hosting a total of 30 projects that highlight the country’s public health computing applications and the Internet platforms toDus, Picta, and Apklis.
The Park has a portfolio of 357 clients, including 15 foreign clients representing Germany, Spain, Canada, Italy, China, Brazil and Chile, who have signed more than a thousand legal documents.
At the international level, its president said, there are 20
Cooperation agreements have been signed with other science and technology parks, research institutions, universities and companies from Belarus, China, Peru, Russia, Turkey and Mexico.
Overall, in its four years of establishment, the Authority has had more than 500 opportunities for projects and services, whether in the state sector – which represents the majority – or with individuals, the private sector and exports; the latter with an amount equivalent to one million US dollars accumulated during that period.
Torralbas Ezpeleta explained that the complex is an innovation ecosystem for the implementation of research, development and innovation (R&D&I) projects and the incubation of new technology-based companies in the ICT sector, which, based on the ratio of benefits and incentives, facilitates obtaining a high percentage of the benefits -impact of the results on economic and social development.
In Cuba, since 2019, the Council of Ministers has approved Decree-Law No. 363, thus enabling the legal framework for the creation and consolidation of scientific and technological parks, an ambitious project that seeks to solve fundamental issues related to science and innovation policy on the island.
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