National Council of Science and Technology
The National Council of Science and Technology is an advisory body to the President of the Republic. The council?s mission is to propose policies on science and technology for the country, while functioning as a source and an integral part of the National Policy for Development; to propose government plans, goals and priorities regarding science and technology, including specifications on instruments and resources; to evaluate the implementation of the National Policy for Science and Technology; and share its views on proposals or programs that may negatively impact the National Policy for Science and Technology, as well as on normative acts of any kind that aim to regulate it. The council is comprised of 27 members: 13 State ministers (Science and Technology, Civil Office; Cabinet of Institutional Security of the Presidency of the Republic; Communications; Defense; Development; Industry and Foreign Trade; Education; Finance; National Integration; Planning, Budget and Management; Foreign Relations; Health; Agriculture, Livestock and Supply), eight representatives of producers and science and technology users (and their alternates), and six representatives of national entities that represent the sectors of education, research, science and technology and their alternates.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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