The Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) is a private applied research center devoted to studying issues that affect the country’s enterprises competitiveness in a context of open market economy. IMCO is a non-profitable, independent, non-partisan institution which operates thanks to private sponsors grants.
Founded in 2003, the Institute seeks to compete successfully in the ideas market by preparing and issuing soundly based and objective practical proposals for public policies which can be used to systematically improve both Mexican economy and enterprises competitiveness. To achieve this goal, the Institute tries to inform and influence those involved in public policies development, debate, and adoption that exert the greatest impact on the country’s ability to attract and retain investments.
Within this framework, IMCO keeps an open dialogue with federal government officials and legislators; enterprises and union leaders; academicians and researchers from other applied research institutions; with the media, and, in general, with the national and foreign civil societies with which Mexico has significant economic relations.
IMCO’s professional staff is responsible for developing analysis, publications, reports, and presentations issued by the Institute, all of whom have postgraduate degrees of the best universities worldwide, specially in the fields of economy and administration and many have worked as high-ranking officers in highly recognized private enterprises or in Mexican government entities.
Besides,IMCO has a relations net with Mexican and foreign individuals and institutions, hence allowing it to multiply its institutional capacities and being an informed player even in topics that are not intimately linked with the economic matters closely related to its working area, but that might exert quite considerable effects on Mexican systematic competitiveness. Also, whenever specialized knowledge is required outside the area of expertise of its staff, IMCO subcontracts research projects from third parties.
Why Present Day Mexico Requires an Institution as IMCO?
An institution as IMCO is necessary for several reasons. First, since the political system is becoming more plural, public policies design requires agreement between people who have extremely varied perspectives regarding the ends of the said policies and the means to achieve them. Second, due to the country’s economic integration to global economy, it was imperative to identify competitiveness risks and to interpret the consequences of adopting or not public policies related to said risks. Third, because several of the related issues related to Mexican systematic competitiveness require an analysis which allows understanding and objectification of such issues most significant implications.
Hence, for the country to move forward in these issues, an institution as IMCO is imperative to keep an ongoing development of an analysis agenda that will allow it to:
| Identify trends and anticipate the competitive challenges derived there from | | Diagnose how such challenges will affect the economy and its main sectors performance
| | Develop practical and high-impact solution proposals to face identified competitiveness problematic and to boost the economy intrinsic competitive capacity.
| | Promote proposals successfully posed in Mexico’s ideas market | The human and material resources available to IMCO, as well as its organizational and institutional design, are in line with these purposes.
Your opinion is important. Please send your questions and suggestions to contacto@imco.org.mx.
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