Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation

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Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation
Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación
ColCiencias logo.png
Agency overview
FormedJanuary 23, 2009 (2009-01-23)
Preceding agency
  • Colombian Institute for the Development of Science and Technology Francisco José de Caldas
HeadquartersAvenida Calle 26 # 57-41 Torre 8 Pisos del 2 al 6, complejo empresarial Sarmiento Angulo
Bogotá, Colombia
Annual budgetCOP$148,292,622,987,234
(est. 2010)[1]
Agency executive
  • Diego Fernando Hernández Losada, Director
Parent agencyNational Planning Department
Key document
Websitewww.colciencias.gov.co

The Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (Spanish: Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación), also known as Colciencias, is a Colombian government agency that supports fundamental and applied research in Colombia.

Publindex[]

COLCIENCIAS Headquarters.

Colciencias runs Publindex, the National Abstracting and Indexing System for Serial Publications in Science, Technology and Innovation (Spanish: Sistema Nacional de Indexación de Publicaciones Especializadas de Ciencia, Tecnología e innovación), which is a ranking of academic journals in four categories (C, B, A2, and A1).[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Ley de Presupuesto General de la Nación 2010 (PDF), Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, 2010, p. 77, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-07, retrieved 2010-08-18
  2. ^ "Editorial". Tecnura.


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