00:00In Cuba, the Office of Gasset No. 94 published Law 182-2025, the General Law on Science, Technology and Innovation.
00:10It is the legal framework that links knowledge to Axis 1, 5, 15 and 21 of the 176 transformation.
00:19Our correspondent Evelyn Leyva has the details.
00:23The first major step forward in the General Law on Science, Technology and Innovation is in the area of governance.
00:30Science is no longer an issue exclusively handled by SIDMA, but has become a policy at the ministerial level.
00:35The law establishes the National Innovation Council, led by the highest level of government, to coordinate all ministries.
00:42It puts innovation at the center of attention.
00:45It is problem solving, the creation of values through problem solving.
00:48A law that places the region at the center of discussion on science, technology and innovation
00:53and gives the municipality a voice in that conversation as a matter of fundamental importance to the country.
01:00To ensure that this innovation does not remain on paper, the law is directly linked to Axis 15 of the
01:05176 transformations,
01:07which focuses on foreign trade.
01:09To this end, it establishes the national strategy and the system of programs and projects.
01:14The law introduces scientific diplomacy and the option to register patents abroad.
01:18Furthermore, it addresses Axis 21 of the knowledge economy.
01:22It establishes the legal foundations for the ethical use of artificial intelligence
01:25and the digital modernization of the scientific system.
01:32The law establishes scientific diplomacy as a tool that links foreign policy with internationalization of science.
01:39The national strategy is approved for a period of 5 to 10 years and includes objectives which quantify our targets.
01:46The law states that an open-site digital infrastructure, which is one of the principles of the law,
01:52must be created, interconnected with national and international initiatives.
01:59Axis 5 of the transformations requires that regions manage their own economic development.
02:03However, to achieve this, it overlaps directly with Axis 10, which concerns labor.
02:08The law establishes for the first time a national program to develop human potential throughout the country.
02:13The goal is to break down the barriers of the past and ensure that talent drives local production.
02:18It is the first law of its kind to be enacted in our country that aims to distinguish and establish
02:29a hierarchy
02:30for the function of research promotion.
02:32This law puts researchers on an equal footing, which promotes the harmonization and consistency of requirements
02:38for the processes of scientific and technological classification, teaching and doctoral training.
02:47The 176 transformations through Axis 1 gave companies the autonomy to manage themselves and the opportunity to export.
02:54But to compete in the international market, they need their own technology.
02:57To achieve this, this law breaks the state monopoly on science.
03:00Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and cooperatives are now part of the system
03:05and can access seed capital funds.
03:07Furthermore, it allows for the creation of high-tech companies and public-private partnerships.
03:12And it establishes a strict rule.
03:14It requires state-owned companies to invest a portion of their profits in research.
03:25Today, the business sector is not designed solely or exclusively to import these technologies.
03:31Rather, it must generate innovation.
03:34Law 182 tells the business sector, here are the rules of the game, here are the funds, here is the
03:40talent, here are the incentives.
03:42It's up to you to innovate.
03:45The general law on science, technology and innovation recognizes that without our own science, sovereignty is impossible.
03:52By turning knowledge into a productive resource, setting the rules for artificial intelligence and building new bridges,
03:58Cuba is not only updating its legal framework.
04:00It provides the 176 transformations with another tool to end dependence on foreign sources
04:05and advance toward development with its own intelligence.
04:08Evelyn Levy, Javier Campanería, Telesur, La Habana, Cuba.
