Industrial Innovation in Mexico

To be able to move towards the call Fourth Industrial Revolution and the economy of knowledge and added value, it is necessary to work on four fundamental pillars.

1. Development of human capital: The adoption of technologies must come
accompanied by first-generation human capital, with the most recent skills that this fourth revolution demands. These include skills in data information, data mining, and cybersecurity, among others.

Therefore, it is necessary for the country to train the talent it needs as soon as possible.
requires, All those automation and robotics and data analytics models, among others, should already be embedded in the platforms of all educational levels, to prepare necessary data engineers and architects;

2. Innovation: Innovation will set the tone for countries that
will stand out on growth issues and those that will not, so that the
companies innovate, cooperation between the University is necessary
Company-Government, this link is important for the creation of
new knowledge, and innovation activities for the development of the
country.

3. Clusters: Generate positive synergies between clusters to detonate
coordinated actions. A cluster is a group of companies and institutions
of support concentrated in a territory that compete in the same business
and that share common characteristics and can be complemented.

4. Apply technology: To generate more productive processes
competitive.
In recent years, Mexico climbed two places, reaching 56th place in the Index
Global Innovation. This considers information from 126 countries, and is composed of 80 indicators such as: intellectual property registration rates, creation of mobile applications, spending on education and scientific publications; among other.

According to the Secretary of the Economy, in recent years, “Mexico has
positioned as the main exporter of medium and high technology manufactures (as a percentage of GDP) among the G20 countries ”. In fact, 70% of Mexican exports are products of these characteristics. In addition,
We are among the top 10 sites in the Global Innovation Index in
regarding ease of obtaining credits, technical manufacturing, imports and
net technical exports and exports of creative goods.

Growth opportunities

The Mexican government hopes to launch the Industry 4.0 MX Platform
as the guiding axis that allows industry, academia and government to work together.
The country already has isolated actions that promote this vision, for
example:
Sonora, has already started construction work on the Innovation and Alta Park
Technology (PIAT) in conjunction with the Technological Institute of Hermosillo to
have a local qualified hand that covers these industries.
Nuevo León has the Nuevo León 4.0 initiative, a program promoted by the
state government, academia and local entrepreneurs, to transform the
value chain as part of the next industrial revolution.
Querétaro advances in the construction of a Road Map IQ 4.0, with the objective
to promote the innovation ecosystem for the industry in the entity.