Founded in 2006, ProsperAr is Argentina’s Investment Development Agency, a public agency within the Ministry of External Relations and International Trade that encourages and promotes foreign direct investment in Argentina. Since its founding it has embarked on a number of initiatives to promote investment, such as: 1) worldwide promotion efforts to attract investment; 2) personalized assistance to international investors in order to facilitate investment projects at all stages of the investment process; 3) identification and elimination of local barriers to investment; and 4) the launch of various innovation/entrepreneurship programs to improve and increase Argentina’s entrepreneurial culture and skills. ProsperAr provides various funds (seed capital, venture capital, financing programs for SMEs) to facilitate access to long-term financing for productive investment and funding for innovation. The agency is particularly eager to promote the green technology, renewable energy and infrastructure sectors. Since 2007, ProsperAr has assisted 165 projects, representing foreign investment of US$8.900 million and creating 13,300 new jobs.

Bio Sidus, is a biopharmaceutical company that was founded in Buenos Aires in 1983 as a subsidiary of Sidus S.A. In 1990, Bio Sidus achieved its first biogenetic product: recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO), the first recombinant human protein fully developed and manufactured in Latin America. Over the years, it expanded its portfolio to include biogeneric products (e.g., ‘biosimila’), bio molecules, proteins for human consumption, plant (commercialized through Tecnoplant) and animal biotechnology and fine chemicals. By 2009, under the direction of Marcelo Luis Argüelles Ugarteburu, Bio Sidus had over US$40 million in sales, 75% from exports to more than 30 countries primarily in Latin America and Asia, including China, India, Pakistan and Indonesia. The firm controlled over 55% of the Latin American market for EPO and was an important player in the biogenetics market, estimated to be worth around US$20 billion. With annual investments in R&D of over US$2 million, its projects include: development of systems to produce recombinant proteins, use of biotechnology to obtain raw materials for human health, clinical investigation of genetically modified proteins, development of transgenic cattle for obtaining recombinant human proteins for therapeutical use, development of genetically modified vaccines against bacterial infections, development of controlled release systems for macromolecules, development of diagnostic systems (methods for qualitative and quantitative determination of a wide range of infectious diseases such as Hepatitis C, etc.) and biotechnology plants (varieties resistant to viruses or herbicides, geno-typification of species, etc.). In collaboration with the Argentine Dirección Nacional del Antártico, Bio Sidus aims to isolate, identify and characterise Antarctic bacterial strains in pursuit of whole genome sequencing.

Since 1984, when Adolfo Grobocopatel founded Los Grobo in Carlos Casares, Argentina, the company has grown into one of the largest grain producers and agricultural service providers in the world - yet it owns no land, no tractors nor harvesters. Los Grobo provides logistical and grain storage services to farmers. It produces soy, corn and wheat on a total 300,000 hectares in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, and has introduced technical innovations such as no-till farming. Los Grobo’s innovative business model is based on an IT-facilitated network of 3,800 small and medium agricultural suppliers. About 100 people at headquarters provide inputs such as seeds, finance, technical advice, sale and marketing of crops, and the deployment of technologies such as GPS and agricultural simulation models to help the network of farmers manage soil resources and deal with climate risks. In 2009, Los Grobo traded more than 3 million tons and generated US$750 million in revenues. Los Grobo has received significant global recognition: it was featured in the "Best Sustainability Report" developed by Global Reporting Initiative; in 2000 it became the first grain producer in the world to be certified in ISO 9001; and it has received the "Leadership in innovative organizational models applied to agriculture” given by Fundece, and was ranked first in a CSR survey conducted by the magazine “Valor Sostenible”. Los Grobo won the Argentine National Prize for Quality in 2010, the first in the sector to receive it, following its 2006 prize for ”Leadership and Innovation in a business model applied to the agricultural sector”.

Based in Buenos Aires, Pol-Ka is a producer of a number of television series in soap opera format that include action, drama, comedy and suspense. It is part of the Argentine media group Grupo Clarín. The production company was founded in 1994, when Adrian Suar and Fernando Blanco created a pilot TV show called Poliladron. The highly successful show introduced a new way of producing TV series. Pol-Ka employs 350 people working in 7 production teams, developing TV shows from the original idea, through the script-writing process to the post production phase. Shows are adjusted to the requirements of each market and audience. Each step is coordinated and managed by Pol-Ka’s International Department working with agents and clients from different parts of the world. In 2005, BVI-Disney selected Pol-Ka to produce ‘Desperate Housewives’ for Argentina and six other Latin American countries. By 2006 it had reached coproduction agreements with Fox Europe and other international companies such as RCN, Televisa, (the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world) and HBO. Currently, Pol-Ka is one of the largest and most successful television producers in South America and has produced more than 5,000 hours of TV programs.

Guerra Creativa provides design services by leveraging crowd sourcing in ways not previously seen in concept-to-design processes. If a client wants a new logo or webpage, Guerra Creativa will host a design contest for a fixed period (e.g., 21 days), and then help the client to evaluate the entries (often over 100) and select a winner. Guerra Creativa uses this collaborative process to design logos, websites, stationery, flash and 3D designs. It also enables designers to interact and learn from each other, hosts online exhibitions of their work, and provides feedback on the designs of others. One section allows users to have exclusive tutorials, with step-by-step instructions for different techniques and advice from their Interactive Creative Director. Currently this community includes 3,400 designers who have already uploaded more than 11,000 designs, with a total membership of 6,000 clients.

Founded in 1951, Grupo Arcor produces a wide range of food products. Currently, through Bagley Latinoamérica S.A., it is South America’s largest manufacturer of cookies and crackers and the main exporter of sugar confectionery products in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru. In addition, Arcor manufactures paper and corrugated cardboard in sheets and boxes for packaging, dairy products, confectionery, dressings, cleaning and personal hygiene products, and frozen goods. Today, Arcor offers its products in 120 countries worldwide. In 2009, in the top 100 ranking of the U.S. magazine “Candy Industry”, Arcor was ranked 14 and was the first Latin American company, with revenues of US$2.2 billion. The group has built a successful distribution model. In order to guarantee the best product quality at an affordable price it is self-sufficient in its main strategic inputs. To reduce costs and ensure supplies it is vertically integrated in the production of packaging for its products and for agro-industrial inputs with a high impact on its end products. Through Converflex S.A. it has participated in the flexible containers market for 40 years and has an installed capacity of 12,000 tons per year. In November 2010, Arcor was nominated ‘Best Company’ by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in Argentina in the business-oriented management sustainability category. The award recognizes companies that include management sustainability (environment, social and economical practices) in their corporate government practices. This was part of the vision of its founders and is implemented through the Arcor Foundation, which promotes 1,500 educational projects in Argentina. Working with 8,500 organizations, it has developed 25 programs aimed at over 1 million children in Argentina, and a further 130,000 in Brazil. Its social responsibility actions seek to minimize accidents in the workplace and the environmental impact of its manufacturing plants.

In 1999, Marcela Benítez founded Responde as a non-governmental organization with the aim of preserving Argentina’s rural towns from disappearing as a result of community members leaving for larger cities in search of better opportunities. To dissuade community members from leaving (and often ending up in worse economic conditions), Responde developed a series of programs that help people from 600 rural communities to identify economic opportunities, such as tourism using local resources, working with local officials to build cultural centres and community spaces and providing workshops to up-skill these officials. In 2008, Responde introduced REVIVAL, a project adapted from "pay to volunteer" models that are popular with other volunteer organisations, using it as one among many sources of funding. It involves first seeking the host community's "permission and acceptance" before placing a volunteer, screening for volunteers who will provide a "direct and critical benefit to the community" (rather than simply accepting anyone willing to pay), and keeping the fee low to cover operational and maintenance costs (rather than add mark-ups).