Informe de práctica empresarial - Gobernación del Meta, Gerencia de Ciencia, Innovación y Cooperación

Abstract

The Meta produces half of Colombia's oil surpassing 500,000 barrels per day, it is clear that the economy of Meten is dependent on "oil", not only because its oil production levels are very high, but because a large part of the formal economy informal activities revolve around the oil industry, which generates risks in economic sustainability in times of crisis in that sector.

Government of Meta, through the Science, Innovation and Cooperation Division, specifically from its area of ​​internationalization, has detected that this is the main problem of the Department, as a consequence it was forced to empower the producers and businessmen metenses to help correct this problem through opportunities in other sectors such as tourism, agriculture and food processing, therefore goals have been set with the initiative to coordinate with national institutions that have experience in internationalization issues, such as Procolombia and the Camara of Comercio of Villavicencio. In the same way, the Academy has been included, linking the process to universities in the region, such as the University of Santo Tomás, among others.

The expectation that the department of Meta can strengthen the tourism sector and its agricultural potential, is oriented to a work that involves all sectors, public sector, private sector and academia, we want to strengthen the small entrepreneur and the agricultural producer with the spirit of increase the competitiveness of the Department, the success depends on an organized work and oriented to the internationalization of the region, the growth is expected to be seen in the productive sectors and in the different economic sectors, and thus to situate the economy outside the oil dependence and take advantage of the natural resources that the department has.