Senacyt

The objective of the project was to contribute to the promotion and increase of Panama’s R&I capacities by improving the mechanisms for funding science, technology and innovation in the country. The implementation was done in three phases: the initial phase was used to map and identify the mechanisms to be studied and to select the entities that were to be visited.

The documentation and analysis of the existing mechanisms took place during the intermediate phase of the project, during which interviews were carried out with the various selected entities; all the necessary documentation and information on the funding mechanisms was collected and a preliminary analysis was made.

During the final phase, the detailed analysis of the potential mechanisms was completed, the conclusions of the study were drawn up and a series of proposals for improving existing mechanisms and/or designing new funding mechanisms for Panama were prepared. Finally, the results were presented at the Second National Forum on Funding Mechanisms.