To design indicators for the measurement of S&T and innovation in their region;
• To provide the international comparability and interchange of information on STI, and the
development of comparative studies;
• To organize international and regional programmes for compiling information on STI;
• To organize international workshops and meetings about the Network's main subjects;
• To publish information, papers and analysis of indicators, and to develop information processes on S&Tand innovation;
• To provide the interface for the relation with public S&T statistics organisms;
• To train experts on statistics and S&T indicators;
• To promote the region’s incorporation to the international system of S&T indicators by adapting the
internationally accepted standards;
• The generation of a Latin American standard adapted to the regional specificities: the institutional parameters according to the national organisms characteristics.