Departmental Councils of Science, Technology and Innovation
The Departmental Councils of Science, Technology and Innovation were created in 1991 - originally known as the Regional Commissions of Science and Technology - as one of the organizations of direction and coordination of the National System of Science and Technology. However, more recently the regional component was modified and organized in 2009 in Departmental Councils of Science, Technology and Innovation. This change was mainly aimed at the decentralization and regionalization of this area, so that regions could increasingly participate in the consolidation of science, technology and innovation processes and be more competitive, according to the particular regional strengths. That is why in the beginning only 6 Commissions were created corresponding to the main regions of the country, while with the Departmental Councils 32 Departmental Councils were created, one for each Department of the country. The second reason is that in 2009 the level of Colciencias was increased to the National Administrative Department level and the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation in Colombia was strengthened, granting a new importance and inclusion to the innovation component. The Departmental Councils of Science, Technology and Innovation are made up of representatives of territorial entities, the scientific community, the private sector and regional universities. In most cases they are chaired by the governor of each department.
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 binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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