National policy · University–industry collaboration · Peru
Peru's Concytec wins INNOVAGRO 2026 award for scheme linking universities and industry
Peru's National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation has won an institutional innovation award for initiatives that bring firms, universities, research centres and public bodies together.
Why it matters: Research leaders designing industry partnerships can examine a Peruvian public model that the award's presenter described as swapping scattered subsidies for structured sector dialogue.
Concytec, Peru's National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, said it won the 9th INNOVAGRO 2026 Award in the Institutional Innovation category for its Linkage Initiatives to Accelerate Innovation (IVAI).
According to Concytec, IVAI connects companies, universities, research centres and public entities to drive innovation and make Peru's production chains more competitive.
The award was announced by Diego Montenegro, vice-president of IICA Mexico, who said the jury highlighted that the work enables new alliances with technical and financial institutions; Karina Maldonado, Concytec's deputy director of Innovation and Technology Transfer, accepted it.
Montenegro described IVAI as a public model that replaces fragmented subsidy allocation with structured sectoral dialogue and co-designed investment and innovation plans, seeking co-financing for technology portfolios.
Editor’s view
Scott James, Research and Innovation Editor
Concytec's IVAI scheme involves universities and research centres alongside firms and public bodies in Peru's production chains. If the approach Montenegro described is followed, then academic participation would be organised around co-designed sector plans and co-financed technology portfolios rather than individual subsidies, a contrast that institutions elsewhere designing industry links may wish to weigh.
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