The province of Córdoba, Argentina staged the
establishment of the Agencia Córdoba
Innovar y Emprender (Córdoba Innovate
and Undertake Agency) a few days ago. This body is a public-private
joint venture that intends to foster local production development,
encouraging entrepreneurship and innovative culture.
The agency has emerged from the joint work carried out by the
Government of the Province of Córdoba and the Unidad de
Vinculación Tecnológica Córdoba
(Córdoba Technological Linkage Unit), Uvitec. It will
primarily focus on "promoting the financing and implementation
of programmes and projects aimed at boosting processes of
innovation, territorial development and added value to production
and addressed to businesses, undertakings, individuals and
production systems of the Province of Córdoba, in
cooperation with and receiving the cofinancing of those sectors of
civil society involved," through the administration of funds
equally provided by the public and private
