Guanajuato, Gto., May 13, 2016. Representing the university community, the General Rector of the University of Guanajuato (UG), Dr. Luis Felipe Guerrero Agripino, attended the presentation of the State's Agenda of Innovation of Guanajuato, instrument that seeks to position the entity as an international referent in the subject of economic, social and scientific development.

The elaboration of State and Regional Agendas is an initiative of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT for its acronym in Spanish) to support the entities in the definition of strategies of intelligent specialization that boost the scientific, technological and innovation process, according with the capability and calling of every state.

The intention is the such agendas, turn into instruments of public politics that link the states with different support instances for innovation, particularly CONACYT.

In the presentation ceremony of the agenda, the State Governor, Lic. Miguel Márquez Márquez, revealed that this project involved more than 41 institutions and a hundred representatives from academy, government, business organization and private initiative.

The objective is to position Guanajuato as an international referent through diversification of current industries and the bet for emerging sectors. In the Agenda of Innovation of Guanajuato, there are four specialization areas that constitute the pillars of the program: Sustainable food industry, automotive and auto parts; providers, leather-shoe, textile, fashion and design, and cosmetics, pharmaceutical and health services.

In his intervention, the General Director of CONACYT, Dr. Enrique Cabrero Mendoza, sustained that Guanajuato is one of the entities of country with the best equipment to transit an economy of knowledge, and mentioned that among its strengths that it has with one of the highest ciphers of scholars enrolled in the National Researchers System.

On his part, the Secretary of Innovation, Science and Higher Education, Dr. Arturo Lara López, said that the process of innovation requires adequate talent, from there the importance of having a systems of higher education big enough and with quality.

To the ceremony attended representatives from the governmental and business sector; rectors and members of the Institutions of Higher Education in the State, as well as members of the National Network of Councils and State Organisms of Science and Technology (RENACECYT for its acronym in Spanish).