18 April 2022 | For: Granma Newspaper
How to achieve the industrial transformation that Cuba needs, based on the use of new technologies, was the topic that focused the analysis of the most recent session of the National Innovation Council, headed by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez. In a context in which the world is moving more and more towards the adoption of digital technology and the progressive promotion of the automation of production processes, this advisory body of the Cuban State —oriented to recommend decisions to promote innovation in the functioning of the State , the Government, the economy and society in a coordinated and integrated manner—called attention to the importance of assuming and applying these concepts in the country.
The actions are based on what has been called Industry 4.0 —considered the fourth industrial revolution— that seeks to transform the company into an intelligent organization to achieve the best results.
The Cuban industry is also projected towards this path, which, taking into account its own characteristics and the objective economic limitations that persist, works to stimulate the emergence of new high-tech companies, as well as technological SMEs, based on the convergence between the business and academic sectors, and their production chains.
Precisely because the National Innovation Council is a platform for the discussion and exchange of ideas and perspectives between specialists from different sectors and thereby contribute to the vision of the nation, its most recent work session became the perfect setting to share and evaluate some of the actions that are already being carried out in the country to promote an advanced industry that is not left alone in the digital framework.
This topic of the advanced industry —explained Doctor of Science Agustín Lage Dávila, adviser to BioCubaFarma— is closely related to various organizations and also has a very direct link with the development of technical sciences. In this sense, he detailed some of the actions that are promoted as part of the project New technologies, advanced industrialization and international reintegration, which responds to one of the macro programs contained in the National Plan for Economic and Social Development until 2030.