Strategy for Economic Promotion at Consulates: Ecosystems and Empowerment

This article proposes that Mexican consulates in the United States harness innovation, technology, entrepreneurship and trade for the purposes of economic promotion. Based on the author’s personal experience in Silicon Valley and with Mexican communities, there are two aspects to this task, the first of which consists of supporting startups through corporations, accelerators and higher education institutions that form part of an ecosystem, and the second, working with Mexican communities that view entrepreneurship and international trade as an alternative livelihood.