First Business Workshop and Global Value Chains of the CILAPE 2026 Convention
The First Business Workshop on Global Value Chains was inaugurated by the Vice-Rector of the Higher School of State and Government Cadres (ESCEG), José Luis López Carmenates. Wang Xiaouguang, an expert consultant for Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Standards at the Ministry of Finance and Prices, presented a paper on a review and experience of industrial development since China's Reform and Opening Up. Professor Armando Cuesta Santos, from the Technological University of Havana "José Antonio Echeverría" (CUJAE) and ESCEG, presented a paper on increasing company productivity in the "Digital Age." Subsequently, Miguel Ángel Arias Ormaza, First Deputy Director of the Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM), Dainerys Infante Santana, Business Administration Manager at CIMAB S.A., and Elizabeth Teresita Arias Valdés, General Manager at CIMAB S.A., presented the paper, "Knowledge Transfer, Capabilities, and Value Creation: Lessons from South-South Cooperation in Biotechnology."
The paper, "R&D&I Management for Integration into the Eurasian Economic Union," was presented by the authors: Amarilys Casalis Viamonte, Business Director of the Center for Drug Research and Development (CIDEM); Mercedes Delgado Fernández, Rector of ESCEG; Idania Caballero Torres; and Adolfo J. Castillo Vitlloch, from the Center for Molecular Immunology. Also presented by CIDEM was the paper “Application of a Methodology for Managing the Value Chain of Beta-Lactam Antibiotics,” authored by Nancy Oña Aldama, Biotechnologist Level One at the Center for Research and Development of Medicines (CIDEM); Mercedes Delgado Fernández, Rector of ESCEG; Xenia Madrazo Sagré, General Director of Farmacéutica 8 de Marzo; Alejandro Saúl Padrón Yaquis, BioCubaFarm Representative in Russia; Liz Marina Oña Olivera, Economic Management Specialist; and Yanelys Pérez Pérez, Commercial Management Specialist at CIDEM.
The video presentation “Artificial Intelligence in the Field of Auditing” was presented by Quianwei Li, Vice-Rector of Nanjing University of Auditing. Another presentation, “Geopolitical Risk Management in International E-commerce: Innovation in State Corporate Governance,” was given by Elisabet Reyes Velázquez, Deputy Director of the CARIBE Chain of Stores Company; Leudis Orlando Vega de la Cruz, professor at the University of Holguín “Oscar Lucero Moya”; and Miriam Lucila López Rodríguez, professor at ESCEG.
ESCEG professors José A. Díaz Batista and Arturo Bofill Placeres presented two papers: “Specialization in Business Management and Administration: A Path to Professional Development for Managers in Cuba’s New Scenarios” and “Changing Paradigms in the Management of Cuban Companies: From Reactive to Proactive Management.” Another group of professors from ESCEG—Víctor Marcos Santana Martínez, Gabriel Montesinos Figueroa, Liuba L. Arteche Hidalgo, Lourdes M. Valdés, Jesús Salomón Llanes Millares, and Iván Pérez Iñiguez—presented the paper “Intellectual Property Management in Cuban Companies: Gaps Between Research, Protection, and the Market.”
The General Director of the Transportation Construction Company, Johan Pérez Rodríguez, presented the paper “Impact of Innovations Implemented at the Transportation Construction Company.” Finally, Regla Graciela Hernández
