Selected the Rector of the ESCEG Dr. C. Mercedes Delgado Fernández member of the National Council of Innovation (CNI)

The National Innovation Council (CNI) is also part of the crystallization of the efforts led by Díaz-Canel and Cuban scientists. It is the "national advisory body of the State, which assists the President of the Republic, aimed at recommending decisions to promote innovation in the functioning of the State, the Government, the economy and society in a coordinated and integrated manner, that contributes to the vision of the nation, as well as to the fulfillment of the current National Plan for Economic and Social Development ".

This is how Agreement No. 156 of the Council of State establishes (in Extraordinary Official Gazette No. 40 of May 4, 2021) that guided the founding of a Council that only few countries in the world have, all of them highly developed. The National Innovation Council (CNI) is also part of the crystallization of the efforts led by Díaz-Canel and Cuban scientists to make science and innovation processes in the country more multisectoral and multidisciplinary, beyond a governing body for these activities.

The Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, Deputy Prime Ministers Inés María Chapman Waugh and Alejandro Gil Fernández, ministers, members of the Academy of Sciences and other members of the national scientific community and the business system participated in the constitution of the CNI.

According to Agreement No. 156 of the Council of State, the CNI is headed by the President of the Republic, and integrated, as permanent members, by the Prime Minister, a Deputy Prime Minister (Inés María Chapman Waugh), and Ministers of Economy and Planning; Science, Technology and Environment, Higher Education, Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Agriculture, Revolutionary Armed Forces, Industry, Energy and Mines, and Communications. It is also made up of the presidents of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, the Biocubafarma Group, and five scientists who are experts in innovation issues and five businessmen who play relevant roles in areas of greatest interest for innovation, appointed by the President of the Council, who may appoint other members and invite ministers, experts, scientists, governors or mayors, as the case may be.