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Science and Technique Secretary
The Direction of Technological Agreements and Transferences has been created taking the following missions and functions into consideration:

Mission
It is the Direction's mission to provide assistance to the Rector, through the Science and Technique Secretary, in issues concerning the management and negotiation of agreements of cooperation with public and private entities of the productive area of goods and services regarding the carrying out, transference,  and exploitation of research works and the scientific and technological development.

Functions
To foster the transference of results and technologies developed in the University to public and private organisms which are in a condition to exploit them.
To provide legal, administrative and coordination assistance to the entities responsible for such agreements.
To control the technical management and follow up the financial execution of agreements
To deal with the normalization, coordination and centralized information of activities concerned with the transference of knowledge, provision of services and subscription to cooperative agreements.
To assist the Rector in issues concerned with agreements developed within the frame of the "Special Fund for Scientific and Technological Activities"

This organization also carries out the following tasks:
Promotes the Transference of results of Research and Technology developed at UBA.
Supports the exploitation of knowledge produced at the UBA by the society and the provision of routine technical services according to the current or potential demands.
Keeps an updated record of the potential offers of extension, transference and services in the area of the University.
Carries out surveys regarding the current and potential demands of knowledge from the society.
Coordinates tasks of services promotion and sale, technical assistance and use of knowledge.
Intervenes in the processing of invention patents of the UBA.

One of the most relevant tasks carried out has been the registry and evaluation of the agreements that each of the University's academic units makes with third parties.
Each agreement is registered and evaluated by this organism, and it is then directed -according to its characteristics- to the diverse corresponding offices so that they can state an opinion and be eventually approved by the Superior Board.
A database has been developed with the aim of classifying, determining and organizing a system that provides detailed and precise information about the work carried out by third parties through the Agreements approved by the Superior Board of the University.

The Superior Board approved a set of regulations that creates the body of "Research Institutes of the University of Buenos Aires" whose main objective is the regulation of existing Institutes and the creation of new ones.
When admitting Institutes to this organization, the Superior Board takes into consideration a criterion that embraces the need to avoid duplications, to make original contributions to existing knowledge, and to foster interdisciplinary cooperation.