Royalties for the science, the technology and the innovation

Abstract

From the year 2012 it entered force the General System of Royalties, which was constituted under the premise of doing an equitable distribution of the resources that gets the State for the exploitation of unrenewable natural resources. The system creates four investment funds, one of them is orientated to the funding of programs and projects of science, technology and innovation; it takes as a purpose the strengthening of the scientific, technological capacities of innovation and of competitiveness of the regions of the country, to contribute to the economic, sustainable growth and to the social progress. Colciencias like institution entrusted to promote the political public ones to foment the science in the country and the universities, like generating institutions of knowledge have a paper protagonist in the structure and execution of the projects to finance with this bottom.