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

eaTha

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

I

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

Jean-baptiste.meyer@ird.fr