[1] After the Disaster of Rancagua, General Mariano Osorio assumed control of the country, abolishing the republican initiatives decreed by José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins, and restoring the colony's governmental, administrative and judicial institutions.
[vague] One of the first scientists who spoke on the development of science in Chile was Jesuit priest Juan Ignacio Molina.
[3] In the field of biotechnology, Pablo Valenzuela contributed to the creation of the vaccine, the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, and the development of a process to produce human insulin from yeast.
It is attached to the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation but has a legal personality of its own and enjoys financial and administrative autonomy.
A ministerial committee was set up by the aforementioned law of 2018 to coordinate the work of ministries but it has met infrequently, up to now.
Since 2015, CORFO has focused on enhancing the competitiveness of a particular sector by improving co-ordination between public and private agents.
It is oriented towards entrepreneurship, providing indigenous groups with state grants to help them fund their business projects.
To qualify these projects must be economically and socio-culturally sustainable and address one of the designated priority sectors: agriculture, forestry, and aquaculture; sources of renewable energy such as solar and wind power; or tourism.