Producción intelectual de las actividades de investigación, desarrollo tecnológico e innovación de la Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander.

Abstract

Research is considered a missionary process in universities that contributes to the development of science, technology and innovation in the country, generating results that impact the scientific community, the productive sector and society in general. Research, technological development and innovation activities in universities are mainly carried out through research projects that are led by the research units, and are aligned to the institutional lines of research; these projects generate different types of products that can be protected by intellectual protection mechanisms either copyright or industrial property, as a strategy to safeguard the interests of the institution and researchers. In this sense, the Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander - UFPS has developed guidelines on intellectual property, and seeks to consolidate the inventory of intangible assets of the institution. The main purpose of this research was to identify and characterize the projects financed by the “Fondo Rotatorio de Investigaciones Universitarias – FINU” of the UFPS, within a period from 2015 to 2018, for the Faculties of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Basic Sciences and Engineering.  For the collection of information, a format for the characterization of intellectual productivity was designed and a semi-structured interview was applied to the principal investigators. As results of the research, the intellectual productivity generated through the research projects was identified, where it was obtained that the mains products that represent intellectual productivity are articles, books, software, prototypes and patents; likewise, an analysis was made of the relationship between intellectual productivity in comparison with investment, time, degree of training of the researchers, maturity of the research unit and research alliances.