Councils of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Programs
The Councils of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Programs were created in 1991 under the National Science and Technology Program Councils moniker, as one of the directing and coordinating bodies of the National System of Science and Technology. However, in 2009 the System was strengthened and its name was changed to the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation, so that the National Program Councils also changed its name, incorporating the word Innovation. In 2010 they were regulated, specifying that their main function would be to direct, advise and coordinate the policies, strategies and instruments of the respective programs. The Science and Technology Programs are areas of scientific and technological concerns and problems, which are materialized in projects and other complementary activities carried out by public or private entities, community organizations or natural persons. In 1991, seven National Programs were established and the possibility that the then National Council of Science and Technology (now the Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council) would create the other Programs that it considered convenient. In this way, this Council has created four additional Programs. The composition of the National Program Councils was also left open for consideration by the National Council, indicating only that the Director of the National Planning Department or its delegate, the Director of Colciencias or his delegate, one or more researchers and members of the private sector. Therefore, the composition of Councils has changed over time, as Colciencias has seen the need to adjust the structure of each according to the circumstances. At present, there has been a greater participation of the public sector, the productive sector and the academic-scientific community have been preserved, and in some councils civil society has been included, with representatives from, for example, indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities and non-governmental environmental organizations.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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