Background
Sustainable productive transformation as an innovation approach for productive sectors
The sustainable transition has become a key approach to promoting economic development and innovation, as well as addressing climate challenges. This concept seeks to align climate mitigation and adaptation strategies with sustainable productive transformation processes to strengthen the competitiveness and resilience of economies.
Its implementation, through the transformation of the energy and production matrices, also promotes a territorial approach that prioritizes the well-being of citizens and inclusive development. In the case of Latin America, it is emphasized that “A green and fair transition implemented with a systemic vision could help the region overcome its development ‘traps’ and strengthen its resilience, in turn improving the well-being of Latin Americans.”
Various national and regional innovation strategies in the European Union (EU) and Latin America integrate sustainability as a key axis to strengthen the systemic competitiveness of sectors and territories through the development of innovative, sustainable and socially inclusive technological and productive solutions.
The role of subnational governments
The implementation of productive policies that encourage innovation and the transition towards more sustainable models includes examples such as strengthening the circular economy, the use of renewable energy, energy efficiency in productive sectors, the promotion of more sustainable value chains and the collaboration with networks of actors and local innovation systems to find solutions, among others.
A sustainable, inclusive and fair transformation requires the leadership of subnational governments. To achieve this, public institutions are required that are prepared to facilitate the construction of a strategic vision, contextualized and capable of articulating with other key actors in their territories.
Due to their proximity to local companies, communities and productive sectors, subnational governments have the opportunity to lead the transformation, acting as catalysts for innovation and promoting governance structures that ensure sustainability. To achieve this, it will be essential to strengthen their capacities to promote transformation and productive innovation. This includes exchange of experiences of inspiring practices, tools for the integration of economic and sustainable development policies at the territorial level and the articulation between local, national and international initiatives that generate synergies for sustainability.
Event Objectives
- Offer an overview of the relevance of sustainable productive transformation in Latin America and Europe, emphasizing its implications and its importance for the resilience and competitiveness of economies.
- Present inspiring cases from Latin America and Europe on the experiences of subnational governments.
- Facilitate the exchange of experiences on the implementation and role of subnational governments as a key driver of innovation and territorial transformation.
- Offer a methodological framework on how to integrate and promote sustainable productive transformation in the territories from the perspective of subnational governments.
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