Published: February 16, 2009  Encouraging business innovation is at the core of the Chilean Government's interest. Therefore now is supporting and stimulating industrial research and technology transfer.
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MasterCard 2008 Emerging Markets Index:Published: February 13, 2009  Chile's capital was named the best emerging city in Latin America by MasterCard Worldwide. Santiago's economic stability, excellent business climate and quality of urban life placed the city first in the region. It also obtained fifth place among the best emerging cities of the world.
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Published: February 11, 2009  The Chilean IT market is one of the most developed in Latin America, according to Business Monitor International. On their "Chile Information Technology Report Q1 2009", BMI highlights the fact that Chile enjoys some of the best telecommunications infrastructure in South America.
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Published: February 09, 2009  Through this economic plan, the Chilean government aims to generate more than 10,000 additional jobs for the mining industry. According to Mining Minister, Santiago González, Codelco is "making a great effort" to "maintain the labour force of its workers and contractors."
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Published: February 05, 2009  In a meeting held on last January, Finance Minister, Andrés Velasco, and Energy Minister, Marcelo Tokman, spoke with the main executives of AES Gener, Colbun, CGE, Copec, Codelco, Suez Energy, Pacific Hydro, Seawind, SN Power, Chilectra, Transelec, ENDESA and Ultraterra, the most important companies of the energy industry.
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Published: February 03, 2009  Of those projects supported, 66% are from the regions, with figures amounting to US$ 51.8 million. Initiatives related to the Food, Aquaculture, Mining and Special Interest Tourism clusters. This year, it is estimated that investment in innovation projects supported by CORFO will exceed US$ 92.6 million.
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