Collaborating with Mexican universities and academies for skilled technology professionals, and exploring business opportunities in lucrative sectors, energy and automotive manufacturing in particular, are at the top of its agenda.

Nuevo León, and especially its capital of Monterrey, has become a hotbed for Mexican IT services companies.

The reform is expected to further spur innovation in a tech sector that has only been picking up steam in recent years.

Guadalajara, the capital of the state of Jalisco, is known as the Silicon Valley of Mexico.

Like its auto sector, Mexican IT has gone from a labor-savings opportunity to a value-added engine of innovation.

Mexico is 8th in the world with 113,944 graduates each year in the engineering, manufacturing, and construction field.