… gave the first step.
By signing a document to promote development, they formed ROSARIO TECHNOLOGY CLUSTER, as the first imprint in the sector of IT Technologies.
In the first years of their institutional evolution, efforts were made for formally becoming a civil association, with a specific vision and mission for materializing the distinctive feature of the Institution, which is public-private consensus.
In this way, advancements were made in the development of associative projects as the Institution’s differentiation value; the formation of the first group of software companies for CMMI standards certification specially outstands amongst them.
This experience gave way to the possibility of generating a larger scope project, such as the IT Quality Laboratory which is in service since the end of the year 2005 and provides assistance to new groups of companies for acquiring quality standards certification. In addition, the Cluster had an active and important participation in the discussions that arose in different levels and in Domestic Competitiveness Forums about recognizing the Software Sector as an Industry; and also in the approval of the Software Industry Promotion Act.
Towards the year 2005, a strategic decision was made regarding the incorporation of new technologic sectors which showed high synergy potential with software, telecommunications and Bio (Bioengineering and Biotechnology) fields. These sectors gradually joined the institution bestowing a multi-sector technologic profile.
In the year 2006, a new strategic proposal was made regarding institutional goals, taking into account the new conformation and the new challenges in the regional context, with the idea of deepening the RTC’s local innovator position by creating a new functional structure with larger operation capacity and by generating, at the same time, spaces of participation for the RTC members in specific work commissions.
Those initiatives have made it possible to increase the institutional activity level, not only qualitatively but also quantitatively.
In this way, RTC continues working to nourish an innovation model and the development of a high added-value production and specialization, with long-term sustainability, independently of the changing political and economic scenarios and impelling the development and the technological positioning of the city of Rosario in the domestic and global spheres.
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