Phase 5: Implementation. Monitoring of Projects, Linking of Actors and Transfer of Results.

This is the Final Phase of the Agendas and involves a set of activities which implies intense interaction between the various actors involved in the process: The Agenda team, the organization promoting the Agenda, the Technical Commissions and external referees, the proponents and the institutions and other associated actors as user-beneficiaries of the results. Its aim is to build the structure required to monitor the various projects, ensuring both the achievement of the expected results and the validation and transfer of those results.

The idea is to establish a mechanism that effectively links the implementation of the projects, their evaluation and their application context, the latter represented by the users-beneficiaries of the Agenda. The Agenda's products are born from the crossing of two fundamental variables. On the one hand, as stated, they depend on the modality(ies) in which the project is included, so there will be products in terms of:

• Increase, deepen or adapt knowledge in a specific thematic area (Research Mode).
• increase in human research, professional and technical capacities (Training Mode).
• Strengthening of technological and managerial capacities of companies and business networks (Modernization mode).
• access to information and communication technologies and information systems associated with productive or social developments (Computerization Mode).
• dissemination of knowledge and technologies and generation of a culture of innovation (Promotion mode).
• creation and strengthening of networks and alliances linked to knowledge and technologies (Networking Modality)

But, on the other hand, these Agenda products take various forms which make it possible to limit the process of transferring results to their respective contexts of application. Among others, these forms can be:

• Inputs in the form of diagnoses, recommendations, frameworks or institutional designs for public policies or decision-making
• Terms of reference and mechanisms for various forms of partnership: agreements, alliances, networking
• Technological developments, prototypes and designs linked to productive or social processes
• Information systems and databases associated with the creation, use and dissemination of knowledge and technology
• Inputs for new projects

Transfer of Management

In addition, in this phase it may be the case, contemplated by the process of Agendas, that the monitoring of the projects and the validation and transfer of results is coordinated by an institution other than the promoter of the process. This strategy of transferring responsibilities in the Coordination of the Agenda responds to the decentralizing and regionalizing spirit that animates the whole process.

Having identified and negotiated in the early stages of the agenda, the potential partners who commit to and take responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the agenda aim to ensure its sustainability. In short, it is with the signing of a cooperation agreement between the parties that the agenda becomes legal and contractually binding. This agreement makes explicit the creation of a fund for the financing of research activities, programs and projects in the area addressed by the different traditional and non-traditional actors in the agenda. All those programs and projects that are highly relevant, timely, feasible and excellent will be eligible for funding through the fund, provided that the methodology of the agenda in its respective stages has been satisfactorily fulfilled.

The fund is created via trust with the bank selected from the agenda partners. The contribution of each of the institutions is established either in the form of species and/or financial. Then, the payment schedule is established between the partners, the selected project and the fund.

The management and maintenance of these funds will always be adapted to the legal regulations of each banking institution established; however, the limitations associated with the guarantees and other figures of bank risk reduction will be subjects to be negotiated between the promoting and participating institutions.
Once the fund has been set up, the contract signed and the monitoring and control strategy negotiated with the project proponents, the proponent is required to carry out a plan of inspections or mini-technical audits of its project on site, if necessary.

The implementation stage has a start date, but most of the time, it does not have an end date, but rather the projects are revitalized, or new needs appear with the passing of the projects, or new initiatives arise, which some locate co-financiers, or new interested actors, in some cases, with special skills, such as research skills, implementation skills, or product marketing and commercialization, achieving in many cases, the formation of a group of organizations, that strengthen each other, generating what we call a process of appropriation of the innovation methodology, which is nothing more than a nascent innovation system, which could locate new sources of financing, new markets, new partners, separating itself more and more from the promoter or facilitator, and acquiring a new way of producing, through a new logic based on knowledge management in its various forms, more inclusive, participatory and oriented to the specific problems of actors in society.