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Now, when you look at Silicon Valley, what things inspire you here?
What things do you have to replicate when you
came here with a lot of your colleagues.
You've been here many times before.
What are the things that you look at as models?
"Boy, I would really like to replicate this back at home."
Well, what I see here is a very, very
powerful and productive combination of academia,
of high-level science, and entrepreneurial spirit.
And the way to make that combination is what we want to do really.
We do have good scientists in Chile, for example.
We do have good entrepreneurs but there's not
that much of a connection between the two.
What we want to replicate is that in order to have
Chile become an innovation hub in South America.
So what are you doing to make that happen?
Well as I mentioned, some things are related to connecting with
other successful centers as Silicon Valley.
We are bringing entrepreneurs here and
taking young entrepreneurs to Chile.
We are attracting IT companies to locate in Chile.
We are attracting centers of excellence to locate
in Chile through government support in addition to
the standard government support for education,
scholarships abroad, large program of scholarship abroad in Chile,
and the funding for R&D.