-› PROYECTOS PRESENTADOS por J. Giorgetti

Bill Summary
To establish a Fund for Initial Research by Novel Argentine Scientists.

FINDINGS

In an attempt to comprehend and justify this initiative, I shall draw your attention once more to a widespread disease: poverty that affects over 63% of our population.

Our regional economies and our small and medium size industries have been badly stricken by poverty. There are also many countries whose future and daily lives depend on how strongly we support our researchers.

Despite the growing awareness for some thinkers that our commodities are quite valuable, as it has been the case of our country lately, it is my duty to move a step ahead of current reality. The price of our commodities, no matter how valuable they may be, compares very unfavorably to sophisticated technological products. Needless to say, we cannot remain helpless when many Argentine scientists are seeking other horizons to apply the knowledge acquired in this country. Perhaps they have failed to realize that those who have been less fortunate than them and will never gain access to a university degree, do expect to get back their share of the tuition expenses. They expect to be redressed for their effort.

It is also widely known that the most qualified Argentineans leave the country and , at times, I have the feeling that they are almost expelled as knowledge is increasingly becoming a major asset in the global economy. The Federal government, in cooperation with the Secretariat of Industry, is determined to discuss our value chains in competitiveness forums. Besides, the Ministry of Education shall support those areas with high potential that are determined to pursue a college degree.

No matter how hard we may try, very little will be achieved unless these efforts are rounded off by providing our scientific graduates with the opportunity to pursue an initial state-funded research project. Over the last few years many productive chains broke down, subcontracting decreased and the inter-entrepreneurial mesh was torn. To rebuild this mesh it is indispensable to have the backup pf our researchers so as to be in a position to generate productive chains with additional technological and managerial complexities.

In view of the above, I request my fellow congressmen to approve this Bill.

Jorge Giorgetti
The House of Representatives

ESTABLISHMENT

There is established the Fund for Initial Research by Novel Argentine Scientists.

1. The Federal Secretariat of Science and Technology and the CONICET shall be summoned to submit a roster of graduate scientists who remain unemployed. This shall prevent “brain drainage” to foreign countries.
2. Design and implement the services to be rendered by those scientists in terms of the most pressing problems our country is currently facing. Thus their focus shall be on control of starvation, of spreading illnesses, poverty and environmental decay