Knowledge@Wharton on Cuba

Faquiry Diaz Cala, CEO of Tres Mares Group, an innovation-driven holding company in Miami that invests and co-invests alongside successful Venture Capital/Private Equity funds and multilateral organizations throughout Latin America and the US:  “The knowledge economy in Cuba is significantly stronger than people give it credit for. The country has one of the highest literacy rates in the hemisphere, one of the highest college graduate rates and PhDs in the hard sciences. Cuba has been producing physicists, mathematicians and so forth who have been exported to other countries. We have to consider Cuba as a startup nation and take a look at some of the similarities with Israel.”  Link