Download - Knowledge diasporas incubators
Jean-Baptiste MEYER
COLCIENCIAS
Relaciones entre Colombia y su diaspora de alto reconocimiento
INCUBADORAS DE LAS
DIASPORAS DEL SABER
KNOWLEDGE DIASPORAS
INCUBATORS
Jean-Baptiste MEYER
Bogota Bogota 12 de diciembre 12 de diciembre 20112011
CreacionCreacion de de IncubadorasIncubadoras Diasporas del Diasporas del ConocimientoConocimiento parapara America LatinaAmerica Latina
Creation of Incubators of Knowledge Diasporas for Latin America
Incubators
� Innovative firms
� Protection
� Early development
� Support services
Market interaction
Resources provision
Various census of diaspora networks
• 41 (Meyer & Brown 2001)
• 107 (Barré et al 2003)
• + 21 (Lowell – Gerova 2004)
• 173 (Meyer & Wattiaux 2005)
• 185 (Tobin & Salee 2006)
100
200
300
400
Various census of diaspora networks
0
100
Diaspora knowledge networks
per countries of origin
10
12
14
16
Active 2005 Total networks
India
Ethiopia
Mor
occo
Bangla
desh
China
Nepal
Tunisi
aArg
entin
aKor
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iland
02
46
8
10
100120140160180200
Registered chinese networks (admin & internet)
020406080
100
Identified by the OCAO(Xiao 2006)
Identified throughwebsearch (Meyer &
Wattiaux 2006)
9
The tip of the iceberg
200
OCAO Websearch
Inputs of Diaspora Knowledge Networks
• Exchange of information
• Specialist knowledge transfer
• “Scientific diplomacy” or promoting the home country in business community abroad
• Joint projects, partly on a virtual basis• Joint projects, partly on a virtual basis
• Training: home-country sessions and mentoring students abroad
• Enterprise creation (including multinational subsidiaries)
• Ad hoc consultations, for example on research/development projects
Conclusions & Recommendations of experts
• Diasporic dynamism
• Big potential for development
• But need:
• Appropriate public policies• Appropriate public policies
• Appropriate institutional policies
• Support of : links, actors, actions.
Actor-Network Theoryfor innovation networks
� Problematization : convergence of people
� Mobilization : move to origin country issuesA
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N
C
U� Mobilization : move to origin country issues
� Enrollement : fit with other (diaspo/countries)
� Interesment : durable commitment for action
N
T
U
B
A
T
O
R
Incubator’s tasks
• 1) Find : extract data
• CIDESAL evidence : 5%
• Objective : reach, 20 or 50%
• 2) Convince (mobilize)
• Communication : we need • Communication : we need you !
• CIDESAL evidence : Uruguay consejos consultivos
• Objective : early involvement, participation
• 3) Enroll/fit together: describe
• We know you ! Your skills, abilities…
• Objective : shape country demand
• CIDESAL evidence : Colombia alliances (ASCUN)
Incubator’s tasks
• 4) Sustain action : incentives/mediation
• Resources : material symbolic
• Travels, distant work, technology
• Institutional : programmes (convocatoriaColciencias)
• Information : www.observatoriodiasporas.com
Exists, in development
• Technology provision : UnoPorUno software
Work in progress, 1st of March delivery
The Incubator is a package
• Guidelines: instructions, training
On going user studies + sessions 2012
• Recommendations : policy design
Extracted from historical cases (R-Caldas) and specific sectors studies (biotechnology)
Colombian researchers : circulation and diaspora (World)
Colombian
researchers :
circulation
and and
diaspora
(Europe)
Colombian + LA
researchers :
Location in
EuropeEurope
Colombian
researchers :
Returnees location
In ColombiaIn Colombia
Incubator
� Protection
� Early
development From potential to realization
No initial self sufficiency
development
� Support services
Links among actors
and with resources
From potential to realization
Evolution of world skills flows
from centre - periphery…
Evolution of world skills flows
… to the multipolar world
www.observatoriodiasporas.com