This report was prepared by two divisions in the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), led by Director Jerry Sheehan: the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) division, supporting the Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) and the Digital Connectivity, Economics and Society (DCES) division, supporting the Digital Policy Committee (DPC).
This report was prepared by Mario Alejandro Nieves, Tom McGee, Sara Romaniega Sancho, Lea Samek and Filipe Silva, with contributions from David Hoffman and Brady Kruse, under the supervision and guidance of Guy Lalanne, Acting Head of PIE Division. Alberto González Pandiella and Alessandro Maravalle from the OECD Economics Department provided valuable feedback. Chiara Criscuolo, Verena Weber, Angela Attrey, Alexia Gonzalez Fanfalone and Molly Lesher, Head of DCES Division, provided useful input and oversight. The leadership of STI Deputy Director, Audrey Plonk, on semiconductor policy is gratefully acknowledged.
The OECD Secretariat is grateful for the support of interlocutors from Mexico’s Secretary of Economy (Secretaría de Economía), particularly Irais Barreto, Diego Eduardo Flores, Alma Sofía García, Fabián Gerard, Rodrigo Legorreta, José Eduardo Méndez and Edgar Romero Martínez. The contributions of María Araceli de Haas Matamoros, Carlos Emiliano Gómez Rodríguez, Elizabeth Aurora Ramos Calderón, Jesús Alberto Figueroa Zenil, Santiago Velázquez and Fernando Arnábar Galarza are also acknowledged. The support of the team in the Mexican Secretary of Economy was invaluable in co‑ordinating and enabling discussions in a fact-finding mission which took place on 13-16 February 2024 and included exchanges with the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones) and Undersecretary of Upper Secondary Education (Subsecretaría de Educación Media Superior), and with state representatives from the states of Hidalgo and Oaxaca. The insights from a range of non-governmental stakeholders were also very helpful, including research institutes and universities such as the Centro de Ingeniería y Desarrollo Industrial (CIDESI), the Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados (CIMAV), the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV), the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), the Tecnológico Nacional de México and the Universidad Autonóma de Ciudad Juárez; and business associations and chambers of commerce such as the Asociación Mexicana de la Industria Automotriz (AMIA), the Asociación Mexicana de Parques Industriales (AMPIP), the Cámara Nacional de la Industria Electrónica, de Telecomunicaciones y Tecnologías de la Información (CANIETI) and the United States-Mexico Foundation for Science (FUMEC). Conversations with industry stakeholders such as Foxconn, Infineon, Intel, Jabil, QSM and Skyworks Solutions were extremely useful. Insights from Hsinchu Science Park are gratefully acknowledged.
Additional statistical, analytical and empirical support from Damiano Morando and Hélène Dernis was warmly appreciated. Administrative, editorial and technical support from Anaísa Gonçalves, Shai Somek, Andreia Furtado and Eleonore Morena was invaluable.
This project also benefitted from input from the United States Department of State. The OECD Secretariat is grateful to key interlocutors, including Virginia Kent, Mark Simeone, Richard Román and their teams, for contributions provided at various stages of the project.