Financiamiento de la investigación en Chile en biotecnología y en otras áreas relacionadas con el sector productivo / Financing research Chile in Biotechnology an other areas related with the productive sector

RESUMO

This study describes the financial support for resarch in chile in different areas related to the productive sector including biotechology. Four different sosurce swhich help research in the country through competitive resarch grants were analysed. These include FUNDECYT (National Fund for Resarch and Technology), Fondo de Desarrollo Productivo de CORFO (Fund for Productive Development), Fondo de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (Fund for Research in Agriculture and Livestock) and the IV Program for Technical Cooperation Between the Chilean Government and UNDP. Biotechnology appears as one of the areas related to the productive sector having an important number of projects approved with a substantial financial support. Based in a survey, recomendations are made to improve the relationship between the productive and academic sector in biotecnology and other areas