📋 Tender Overview
The competition will benefit at least eleven proposals, with a maximum funding of up to S/ 25,000.00, for each grant. With the aim of increasing the protection of intellectual property and technological management of the results of R&D projects and in order to promote technological transfer and commercialization, as well as adoption by the market and society through applications for registration of invention patents and utility models at national and international level through the PCT system (Patent Cooperation Treaty); ProCiencia, the executive body of Concytec, announces the new competition PCT Patent Registration 2025-01.
The competition is held within the framework of the Interinstitutional Collaboration Agreement for the Strengthening of Innovation and Technology Transfer, signed in 2021, between the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi) and the National Council of Science, Technology and Innovation (Concytec), to promote the strengthening of innovation, intellectual property and technology transfer systems in Peru and contribute to the consolidation of a national system of science, technology and innovation that allows increasing the productivity and competitiveness of the country.
Through this edition of the competition, which has a closing date of March 20, 2025, a maximum financing of up to S/ 25,000 (twenty-five thousand with 00/100 Soles) will be granted for each of the eleven (11) selected proposals with an execution period of up to 12 months from the disbursement. The funding will be mainly used to hire a legal entity specialized in intellectual property services at an international level, advice on the drafting of technical patent documents, forms, among others.
The proposals must have identified the legal entity specialized in intellectual property services and be related to one of the following strategic areas that respond to the demand or knowledge gap important for the development of Peru:
1. Adaptation and mitigation to climate change
2. Valuation and sustainable use of biodiversity
3. Circular Economy
4. Health
5. Food security
6. Renewable energy
7. Information and communication technologies (ICTs)
Applicants must choose between the two (2) following modalities:
1) Proposals for technical documents for invention patents or utility models based on any of the following processes or procedures:
a. Research results
b. Product development
c. Engineering projects
d. New or substantially improved products or processes.
2) Applications for national patents submitted for processing to INDECOPI, which must have been submitted within four (4) months prior to the closing date of the competition.
ProCiencia, through the Beneficiary Selection Sub Unit (SUSB) and Indecopi, will be responsible for the evaluation and selection process of the proposals submitted.
For more information, interested parties should review the competition rules, which contain detailed information on requirements, eligible items, documents and application process, available at: http://www.prociencia.gob.pe/.
