The mercantile dimension of international relations now has —in the midst of globalization— an unprecedented weight. For countries like ours, who have strongly committed to free trade and have identi?ed in it a path to full development, the economic component of diplomacy is critical.
Drawing closer to Europe is one of the most concrete manifestations of Mexico’s obligation to rethink and diversify its political and trade policies. It is not a coincidence that the Economic Partnership, Political Coordination and Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and Mexico came into effect only five years after the NAFTA. By signing the Agreement, the parties upheld their disposition to coordinate their efforts in political, economic and cooperation arenas.
In a world that is increasingly transforming along with exponential technologies, the federal government is betting on innovation to address Mexico’s big current challenges, according to Jorge de los Santos, coordinator of the National Plan for Technology and Innovation of the current administration, and José Alfredo Galván, business research national developer of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. During the interview with Comercio Exterior, they also shared with us the foundation of the federal administration’s innovation strategy and announced the upcoming Innovation MX: Driving Economic Growth forum, which they believe is a milestone in the instrumentation of said strategy.
