Chile's scientific communitygarners well-deserved respect in the region and worldwide.The country has made significant and fruitful efforts tomove towards a leadership position in research amongindustrializing countries. While progress has beensubstantial it has not yet matched the country'saspirations and much remains to be done. Although, there areno observed specific inequities within Chile's advancedresearch system, the country's education system hasroom for improvement. In higher education, while genderequity has been attained, there is still an unevenconcentration of enrollment in the top income quintile, 65percent, while the two lowest quintiles merely reached 25.6percent in 2000. In terms of postgraduates, Chile producesless than 100 Ph.D.s per year and would need to be producingon the order of 3,000 per annum to reach a level comparableto the knowledge-based OECD economies. Similarly, Chile hasone scientist for each thousand economically activeinhabitants, while the developed world has an average offive scientists per thousand.
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