STI Strategies to link Higher Education

with Innovation Ecosystems

COLCIENCIAS - COLOMBIA

Julián Pontón

Director of Technological Development and Innovation

¿What is Colciencias? And ¿What we do?

Administrative Department of Science Technology

and Innovation. Depends directly from the President

and leads the National System of Science,

Technology and Innovation.

Research Innovation Culture Education

11 6

4

2

100%

OCDE Average

4.106

Researchers

per million

hab.

161,5

Articles/

billon of GDP

33,1

5,1

1,34%

0,12%

Companies

R+D Expenditure

(%GDP)

Patents

Applications

per billón

USD

3,18

0,2

7

2,08%

R+D Expenditure

(%GDP)

0,23%

OECD Diagnostic

COLCIENCIAS Strategies

Regionalization

How to connect them?

To promote more sophisticated and

innovative companies

Generate a culture that manages and values knowledge

Have an ambitious and focused scientific

production

To increase the human capital formed in CTeI

High impact

scientific articles

13.400 Of the mass

Innovative business

30% Of children and

youth

3m Masters and

doctoral

scholarships

10.000

37 potential beneficiaries.

29 Companies supported

Items to be financed:

• Enrollment.

• Monthly support up to $1.000 USD aprox.

• Internship abroad up to $2.000 USD Aprox.

• Support for the development of the

research project

Ph.D. IN COMPANIES- Open Call 758 /2016

International

HEI or R&D

Center

Colombian

Companies

Other colombian HEI

Colombian

High

quality

HEI Society Food Health Renewable

energies

Bioeconomy

Proposals should address at least one societal

challenge in one of the selected topics.

Total Budget: 26.162.382,295 USD (World Bank Credit)

Max. Budget for proposal: 6.539.681,728 USD

Improving the quality of Colombian HEIs through alliances that foster regional

development and respond to social and productive development challenges to

implement R&D+i projects.

SCIENTIFIC COLOMBIA – SCIENTIFIC ECOSYSTEM

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Patent

Brigades Protection

Fund

910 identified projects

321 applications Colciencias: 24

545 applications

Colciencias 2016: 229

Achievements 2015 - 2016

446 identified projects

2015

2016

2017 Goals

National Call

Regional calls

486

261 Applications

225 Applications

Laverage Research

TTO´s

Spin-off

Achievements 2015 - 2016 Goals 2017

With more than 34 Higher Education

Institutions, a roadmap was drawn up

to enlist, set up and launch Spin-off

companies.

Selected for their creation

3 spin off

• Supporting 5 TTO´s

• 7 Licenses

• Supporting 5 TTO´s • 4 Licenses

• 4 Spin Off

Resources for their operation, as with

training the team on negotiation,

technology assessment, technology

surveillance among others

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

TAX BENEFITS Instrument developed by the National Government under the leadership of Colciencias, as

an incentive to the players in the National System of STI in the development of their projects.

The instrument consists of two main forms: deductions in income tax and tax exemptions.

Achievements Metas 2017

US$ 132 mn 79,36% Quota Allocation

US$ 167 mn 100% Quota Allocation

100% Allocation of the Tax Deduction Quota Quota increased to US$ 200 mn

In 2015

In 2016

Open Innovation Platform - SUNN

Active Conections: 67 / Active Challenges: 6 / 2016 Challenges: 79

1.823 conections between supply and demand

STARTUPs RESEARCH

GROUPS COMPANIES INVESTORS

210 308 1333 12

TOTAL: 1823

Objective: Connect the offer from universitieis and startups with investors and companies.

Sector: IT, Cleantech, Energy, Advanced Materials, Life Science,

ALL TOGETHER FOR A SCIENTIFIC NATION