It generates jobs, but more important, you generate technology that can be commercialized in partnership with industry, and that's economic development".
The current challenge is to generate technology that helps poor farmers in low potential areas.
It aims to generate technology innovation, by creating new technology-based companies, enhancing industrial competitiveness, revitalizing the regional economy, and creating jobs.
Nowadays, it is critical to generate technology to be applied to crops in order to counteract the lack of food, which can be produced by several biotic and abiotic factors.
Chile does not have a system that provides incentives to private fundraising foundations, nor companies to generate technology and innovation in situ.
It has also generated technologies such as those for biomass energy generation and construction.
Worldwide among all types of renewable power generating technologies, solar photovoltaic (PV) power continues to be the fastest growing power generation technology.
"We were just a tiny little speck 10 years ago, and now we are really up there with the major established generating technologies," said Baca. "It's amazing".
But no one has published comparative full-cycle data on the water used in manufacturing, operating and decommissioning the various energy generating technologies.
Mr. Fells, meanwhile, says that the high costs and relative inefficiency of wind farms compared with other generating technologies means that the government needs "a reality check on renewables".
