The results of the negotiation of the new operational program of EU funding for RA Wood (PO-RAM) denotes something potentially worrying. Whereas in most of the infrastructure investments made in the past, seen as beneficial and necessary for the development of the region, it fell far short investment in basic research in science and technology; Madeira continues to appear in the statistics of those investment areas, with modest numbers in permanent decline, and very far (0.1% of GDP) the national average (2% of GDP) and EU average (3% of GDP) .
Once past the need to build roads, tunnels and bridges, nothing more logical move would be to invest in the development of Knowledge. For this, it lacks the opportunity to be able to create the foundations that stimulate the development of this sector, including investment in securing skilled human resources, infrastructure and research projects that show the potential of the region without limits and / or with strong constraints on priori.
Once implemented a culture of research and development recognized and properly framed in the Regional reality, then we would be able to pass the ‘Framework for Innovation’, ie the transfer of this ‘new’ knowledge to the business community. This is the path that has been traveled by the developed societies of Europe and the world.
There is a certain logic in making economic competitiveness through knowledge (this is called innovation), we offer something new and to bring something new, we need first to be able to realize what we have new to offer (this is called Science and Knowledge). Currently, the development of knowledge requires the intervention of Technology (hence the investment in Science and Technology).
Now is us being denied the route of all growth stages of the evolutionary process (natural) under the recently approved European funding framework. We were denied the possibility of promoting Science and Technology and the Regional Development Knowledge without limits, which require time to own maturity, before you can transfer the most relevant products and services to the economy. Hardly we will invent something new forced and hasty manner. Certainly, we can not do in 5 which the other countries and regions took 50 years to realize
In truth, in order to take advantage of the operational funds for the development of R & amp;. D Regional, we must follow the same ‘patterns’ designed for the more developed countries of Europe, that is, able to invest directly in innovation, the knowledge transfer to the business world. It is proof of this disparity of values that will contemplate R & amp designs; D (about 30 million) to double the funding available when contemplating the participation of undertakings in respect of research projects without the prerequisite of innovation, under the Operational Program of RAM, recently presented and that will take us up to 2020. On the other hand, only about 8% of total EU funds available to RAM is intended the area R & amp; D per se. That is, with some extra investment (public and private) we may arrive at a total expenditure of 1% of GDP of RAM in R & D, positioning us well short of the regions and developed countries in Europe
In less than five years, and without a strong track record in the development of knowledge, and without knowing what we have new to offer, we are tasked with quickly turn knowledge into wealth. Not only is inadequate challenge for a society that only recently woken up to the potential of science and technology as drivers of the economy. It is analogous to wanting to run before learning to walk, or wanting to build a house ‘in the air’, without first developing strong foundations for support. Again, everything can become inconsequential and no measurable impacts long-term medium-, like some marinas and known roads. Probably a lot of ‘lard-the-snake “will be sold under the plan of’ Innovation ‘to justify the expenditure of 30 million euros in EU funds.
Although there by some officials, an attempt founded to give proper treatment to ‘outermost region’ and / or ‘least developed region’, with its own needs, housed in a historical context with little investment in science and technology, the situation was not reversed, and it was all very equal to pictures of funding made available to other EU regions. Alarming is, if this is the principle of Madeira recognition of loss as least developed region of Europe. Have we done enough to demonstrate to our funders that the region lacks an appropriate development framework to our reality? Do we have to work more hard with other regions in the European representation? ? Or is it an attempt to condition the development by other competing countries
Regardless of the reasons, the fact remains that this R & amp funding framework; D denotes not a recognition of Europe Region status less developed or meets the real development needs of this sector in a region (still) weak, compared to a European reality (Continental) very distinct. Disquieted with this attitude, we are prepared to co-finance the development of science and technology with its own budget, against this European imposition?
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