📋 Tender Overview
With 29 votes in favor and 2 abstentions, the Upper House supported the idea of legislating, so the text will return to the commission of challenges of the future for its particular study.Connect the academic world with the market and society is the central objective of the project that seeks to establish a regulatory framework for the transmission of the results derived from scientific and technological research, which was generally approved in the last ordinary session. Until May 29, the legislators and the Executive will have to submit indications to the text that will begin their particular debate in the, instance that has already reviewed the proposal initiated into a message. In the room, the parliamentarians reflected on the need to establish public public alliances in the field of technology, enhance universities in their role in research, and promote the collaboration of academic institutions, government agencies and industry. Project The standard has the following objectives: Recognize research as a permanent activity in universities. Eliminate obstacles to the transfer of knowledge and technology from the academic field to the private sector. Create a scientific information repository based on open science criteria. Solve confusing problems related to intellectual property that arose during the processing of the law established by the Ministry of Science. In that line, the bill: gives content to the concept of research in Higher Education institutions IES as one of its essential functions and creates the National Repository of Knowledge and Scientific and Technological Information. It establishes the duty to promote open science in IES, in its sphere of autonomy. It establishes the duty to promote the State of Research, Creation and Transfer and Exchange Projects of Technology and Knowledge. It establishes a legal statute for the transfer of technology and knowledge, with special emphasis that IES and their investigators 12 can create or participate in EBCT developed from research results. Establishes an intervention rights regime in projects financed with public funds. It establishes modifications to other rules aimed at eliminating possible obstacles linked to the transfer and management of technology and knowledge. Senator Ximena Ordenes, president of the Future Challenges Commission in Sala. They analyzed potential conflicts of interest. In the discussion, the senators intervened ,,,,, and, who mentioned the relevance of increasing the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that is destined for research and development, which in the last 15 years represents 0.36% of the product. Another topic addressed in the session was the participation of teachers dedicated to research in scientific and technological base companies becoming that it is necessary to establish rules to avoid conflicts of interest but at the same time, it was specified that this should not mean discouraging this virtuous complementation. A fact present in the debate was that 87% of professionals with doctorates in Stem races (of the area of science, technology, engineering and mathematics) work in universities and the rest, in the private world. The congressmen mentioned this data referring to the labor world associated with research. From a critical look, it was assured that the national challenge must be to transform knowledge into prosperity, but for that the use of the technologies we apply must mature and, in the case of Chile, only basic research is produced it was also said that this project only generates more institutionality leaving aside how important it is to allocate resources for research.
