National policy · Finance, funding and sustainability · Peru
Peru's Concytec marks 58 years and says its funding now prioritises technology transfer
Peru's national science and technology council says its current leadership has rethought funding needs. The new priorities are technology maturation and transfer and solutions to national problems, affecting the universities and research bodies it funds.
Why it matters: Universities, institutes and research bodies seeking Concytec's competitive funding through Prociencia face priorities that the council says favour technology maturation, transfer and national problems.
Concytec, Peru's National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, marked 58 years on 6 November. It traces its origins to the National Research Council (CONI), created on 6 November 1968.
Concytec said that over the past three years it has supported basic and applied research projects, awarded doctoral scholarships, strengthened technology transfer capacity and held science events and outreach activities in several regions.
According to the council, it runs competitive funding schemes through Prociencia to generate knowledge, develop technologies and build the capacity of universities, institutes and other research entities.
Concytec said its current leadership decided to rethink funding needs, giving priority to technology maturation and transfer and to solving national problems.
Editor’s view
Richard Davies, Policy and Finance Editor
Universities, institutes and other research entities that compete for funding through Prociencia face priorities that Concytec's current leadership says now favour technology maturation and transfer and solutions to national problems.
