Nine companies from the Biobío region specialized in engineering and computer services will undertake an internationalization process this year with commercial missions that they will carry out during August and September next to Peru, Colombia and Mexico.
All of these startups are part of two projects of the Services Export Network that are financed by Corfo Biobío and supported by ProChile, which will open the doors to offer their services to those South American markets, through the transfer of experiences by agents. relevant aspects of the export system and technical advice that allows them to reduce the gaps to export.
Ecogen, Hibring Engineering, Lemusse Develop, Ramtun Engineering and Improve Bot participate in the engineering area. While in the IT sector, Betech Proyectos, Gestiona, Salgado, Kefa and Floval are integrated.
Escogen is one of the companies participating in the program, which works with the concept of environmental DNA, a technology that allows the species present in an ecosystem to be identified and analyzed non-invasively through the analysis of the DNA they leave in their environment, such as in water, soil or air.
Regarding the importance of the program, the marine biologist, co-founder and manager of the company, Kennia Morales, pointed out that “the company provides scientific and technical support to private companies, government entities, NGOs, and independent researchers that require monitoring and diagnostic programs of biodiversity in real time for the detection of marine, aquatic and terrestrial species, in addition to advising on the design of sampling, experiments and analysis of biological data. Our drive for internationalization comes from the need to increase its customer base and to do so they saw that there are real possibilities in Peru and Colombia, where there is a growing interest in incorporating sustainability into all production processes.
Regarding the initiative, the director of the Corfo Biobío Committee, Roberta Lama, highlighted that “we are working powerfully to support innovative ventures to develop a regional ecosystem with high growth potential and export their products and services through our Red instrument. Market. A clear example of success is the creative industries that last year managed to do business with Mexico, Colombia and Peru. Today we see this new participating group with an important base in research, development and business innovation to promote competitiveness, productive diversification and with significant growth potential outside the borders of Biobío and Chile.”
Added to this are the words of the regional director (S) of ProChile in Biobío, Ramón Paredes, who indicated that “the region has an important human capital of professionals who for decades have contributed to the development of numerous Chilean industries, including mining, forestry, fishing, aquaculture and agriculture, designing innovative and efficient solutions that can be replicated in other markets, particularly in Latin America. In these Services Export Network projects, ProChile collaborates through its Commercial Offices that it has in Lima, Bogotá and Mexico City, ‘managing that Chilean companies can make essential business contacts to find the clients they need to continue growing'”.
Photography: ProChile
