18 January 2024 | Briefing note
The Energy Big Push 2.0 presents unprecedented data on energy innovation, develops a digital platform prototype to promote university-business interaction on innovation in the energy sector, and holds a series of events and debates on innovation and the energy transition in Brazil.
20 September 2023 | Briefing note
ECLAC, the MDIC and INPI, with European Union support through the Euroclima+ program, held an event on August 24 to launch a study on criteria for the patentability of biotechnology.
12 September 2023 | Briefing note
Actions to promote innovation in green technologies led to 96 connections (“matches”) between providers and seekers of these technologies in Latin American and European countries.
27 February 2023 | Briefing note
ECLAC Member and Associate Member States reaffirmed their commitment to implement public policies to transition towards a care society oriented towards the sustainability of life and gender equality. The ECLAC members made this commitment in the Agreement signed on February 9, within the framework of the 64th Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.
22 November 2022 | Briefing note
Modern services —digitally delivered services such as computer, financial and business services— have been the most dynamic category of international trade in the past decade. However, Latin America and the Caribbean is still a marginal player in global trade in modern services.
7 October 2022 | Briefing note
We continue the conversation and our webinar series on Open Science in 2023 and invite you to showcase your experiences and initiatives.
5 June 2020 | Briefing note
In the context of the ECLAC-BMZ/giz Cooperation Program "Sustainable development paths for middle-income countries in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean", a virtual workshop on emerging occupations and regulation of platform work in Costa Rica was organized on June 4th, 2020. The workshop was part of the work being carried out in Cluster 2 on digital change of the current ECLAC-BMZ/giz Cooperation Program.
26 March 2020 | Briefing note
This webinar is part of a series of virtual events organized by the GADeR-ALC Gender and Energy+ Workstream to bring the different topics together and which propose to incorporate the innovative and disruptive gender approach in different parts of Latin America.
8 October 2019 | Briefing note
In the framework of the efforts to strengthen geospatial information management in the region, representatives of this Commission will attend these meetings that will be held in Mexico City, from 9–11 October 2019.
3 September 2019 | Briefing note
The organization’s office in Brasilia has organized a book that brings together essays with contributions on tackling structural economic “bottlenecks” and harnessing opportunities for the country’s development.
3 September 2019 | Briefing note
In order to identify opportunities and risks that Latin American countries might face as they begin as they move towards increasing the adoption of artificial intelligence
24 April 2019 | Briefing note
Representatives of the governments of Argentina, Chile and the Dominican Republic participated in the side event on "Technological Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities for Industry, Employment, Gender Equality and Social Development", which took place on Wednesday, April 24th, 2020. The event was organized by the Divisions of Social Development (DDS), Production and Enterprise Development (DPPE), Economic Development (DDE) and Gender Affairs (DAG) with the support of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
3 May 2016 | Briefing note
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the German cooperation – GIZ, with the support of CORFO, organized the first interregional workshop to discuss this matter and its impact on productivity.
11 April 2016 | Briefing note
Representatives from ten countries met to discuss the construction of indicators for identifying how enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean develop their productive processes and link them with environmental aspects.
11 June 2014 | Briefing note
A meeting on innovation and SMEs is conducted today at ECLAC headquarters.
9 June 2014 | Briefing note
The Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Antonio Prado, stressed this point at a parliamentary meeting on science, technology and innovation.