National Council of Science and Technology
The National Council for Science and Technology (CONICYT) was created in 1997 by Law No. 1028 and modified in 2003 by Law No. 2279. It is an autarchic public institution, of mixed composition, under the Presidency of Paraguay. Its main purpose is to advise the National Government on national science, technology and innovation policies. To that end, it makes proposals and evaluates the policies implemented in this area, and encourages initiatives that promote scientific and technological activities. CONICYT is made up of Councilors representing government agencies, universities, the Paraguayan Industrial Union, the Paraguayan Rural Association, the Federation of Production, Industry and Commerce, the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, the Paraguayan Scientific Society, the Paraguayan Association for Quality and trade unions.
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
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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