CONICET NOA Sur

Name

CONICET NOA Sur

Legal name

CONICET NOA Sur | Centro Científico Tecnológico | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Website

https://noasur.conicet.gov.ar

Company type

Public

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán

HQ country

Argentina

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government institutional funding: CONICET NOA Sur is a public scientific research institution funded entirely by the Argentine national government through CONICET. Its operations — including researcher salaries, grants, infrastructure, and equipment — are financed via public science budgets (Ley de Financiamiento del Sistema Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación), with no commercial revenue model.

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Go-to-market motion1 record

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Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

CONICET NOA Sur is a Centro Científico Tecnológico (CCT) operated under Argentina's national research council (CONICET). It coordinates 23 Unidades Ejecutoras (research units) across the northwestern provinces of Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, and Catamarca, conducting scientific research, offering postgraduate training, and performing technology transfer activities for the public and industrial sectors.

Product overview

CONICET NOA Sur is a public scientific research institution (Centro Científico Tecnológico) under the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), covering the provinces of Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, and Catamarca. It does not offer commercial software products or services; rather, it operates a network of research institutes and units (Unidades Ejecutoras) conducting scientific research across disciplines including biology, chemistry, physics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, environmental science, and social sciences. The institution provides scientific training, postgraduate courses, and technology transfer through its Office of Technological Linkage (Oficina de Vinculación Tecnológica), but these are public science activities rather than commercial product offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Scientific Research Services Coordinated scientific research activities delivered through 23 Unidades Ejecutoras across Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, and Catamarca provinces, serving academic, governmental, and industrial stakeholders in northwestern Argentina.
• Postgraduate Education Programs Postgraduate courses and academic training delivered through affiliated Unidades Ejecutoras for researchers, graduate students, and academic professionals in northwestern Argentina.
• Technology Transfer Services Technology transfer activities that move research outputs and innovations toward public-sector and industrial applications, serving government entities, industry partners, and broader society in the NOA region.

Quantifiable outcome

• Portable arsenic detector achieves high analytical sensitivity for field detection without requiring highly qualified personnel or expensive laboratory equipment
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

18 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Fundación Araucária (Brazil)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 October 2025The Foundation for Scientific and Technological Support from the State of Paraná, Brazil, participates in joint scientific and technological activities with CONICET NOA Sur and other CCTs of the North Grande region.
• Sky Bio LLC (USA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 May 2024US biotech company Sky Bio LLC collaborated with CONICET researchers and the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán on the design and preclinical testing of a new molecule for combating Parkinson's disease, which was patented in the US and EU.
• Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCONICET NOA Sur has multiple double-dependence institutes with UNT, including INSIBIO, INQUINOA, INFINOA, INBIONATEC, IER, INVELEC, INBIOFAL, IMMCA, and others. UNT is the primary university partner for research collaboration.
• Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero (UNSE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCONICET NOA Sur has double-dependence institutes with UNSE, including IMSaTeD and INBIONATEC, conducting research on health, bionanotechnology, and related fields.
• Universidad Nacional de Catamarca (UNCa)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCONICET NOA Sur has double-dependence institutes with UNCa, including CREAS and IRES, focusing on environmental sustainability and sociocultural studies respectively.
• Fundación Miguel LillocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the double-dependence Unidad Ejecutora Lillo (UEL), which focuses on taxonomy, systematics, and evolutionary biology. The UEL celebrated 10 years of operations in July 2024.
• Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCONICET NOA Sur collaborates with INTA on joint research projects, including a 100+ person articulation event at INTA Famaillá and participation in the Mesa de Ciencia y Técnica de Tucumán.
• Estación Experimental Agroindustrial Obispo Colombres (EEAOC)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on functional food development for child nutrition in the NOA region, combining agricultural research with food science.
• Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (MINCYT)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational ministry providing funding for research projects, including the Programa Redes Federales de Alto Impacto which awarded USD 1 million to seven projects from CONICET NOA Sur.
• InterenergycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic collaboration agreement between PROIMI (biotechnology institute) and Interenergy for sustainable biotechnology projects, part of a series of agreements with private sector companies.
• Y-TECcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic collaboration between PROIMI and Y-TEC (YPF Technology) for applied biotechnology R&D in support of the energy sector.
• SyngentacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic collaboration agreement between PROIMI and Syngenta for biotechnology research with potential agricultural applications.
• Pan American EnergycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCONICET and Pan American Energy strengthened I+D agreements, with visits to PROIMI and commitments for public-private articulation around sustainable projects.
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe WIMAGINE project, led by Virginia Albarracín (CONICET NOA Sur), received the Humboldt Alumni Award for promoting cooperation and training networks for women in bioimaging.
• Schmidt Ocean Institute (USA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCONICET researchers use the Falkor research vessel (owned by Schmidt Ocean Institute) for deep-sea exploration expeditions in the Argentine Sea as part of the Talud Continental IV campaign.
• Ministry of Education of BrazilminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerA doctoral fellow from CONICET NOA Sur in Catamarca (Federico Vega) received a scholarship from Brazil's Ministry of Education to conduct a research stay in Brazil on geography and territorial studies.
• Government of Tucumán ProvincecoreOthersMultiple collaborations with provincial ministries including Health, Education, Economy and Production, and Public Works, through the Mesa de Ciencia y Técnica de Tucumán for science-based public policy.
• Programa Sonqo CalchaquíminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerA scientific-academic cooperation agreement was signed to strengthen intercultural rural health in the Calchaquí Valleys and Puna region of the NOA, involving the Faculty of Medicine of UNT.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• CONICET Patagonia (CCT Patagonia): Sibling CONICET Centro Científico Tecnológico covering Patagonia. Operates with the same institutional model, executing-unit structure, and CIC/CPA career framework; competes and collaborates with CONICET NOA Sur within the unified national system.
• INTA (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria): Argentina's national agricultural research institute and a long-standing CONICET NOA Sur partner (joint articulation events, Concordia/INTA Famaillá). INTA has overlapping regional presence and shares the Argentine public research mission, with comparable applied-science focus for productive sectors and provincial extension networks.
• CONICET NOA Norte (CCT NOA Norte): The other CONICET regional scientific center covering the NOA region (Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán partial). Shares the institutional structure, federal mandate, and regional science policy remit; collaboration and overlap with CONICET NOA Sur is frequent given the shared northwestern geography.

Broad incumbents

• CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation): Australia's national science agency, executing publicly funded multi-disciplinary research (agriculture, energy, health, environment) across regional centers. Comparable mission mix of fundamental research plus industry-linkage service units, with publicly-budgeted career researcher systems akin to the CIC.
• CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique): France's national scientific research center. Operates a multi-disciplinary network of laboratories with regional centers and partners with universities across the country — the global reference model for an integrated public multi-disciplinary research council akin to CONICET NOA Sur's parent structure.
• Max Planck Society: Germany's publicly funded multi-disciplinary basic research organization. Comparable scientific reputation, federal-regional structure (institutes spread across German states), and emphasis on graduate training — sets a global benchmark for the kind of multi-disciplinary scientific institution CONICET NOA Sur aspires to within its region.
• CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas): The parent national research council of CONICET NOA Sur. CONICET operates the full network of CCTs (including NOA Sur) across Argentina and runs the unified CIC and CPA researcher career systems, making it the broadest direct counterpart and the source of CONICET NOA Sur's institutional and funding channels.
• CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico): Brazil's federal research council, structurally analogous to CONICET at a larger national scale. Both organizations fund research careers, manage federal laboratories, and run regional postgraduate training systems across diverse disciplines — the closest functional analog for a Latin American public research council.
• CONACYT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, México): Mexico's federal research council, providing a broad national analog in terms of multi-disciplinary research grants, regional centers, postgraduate training, and industry linkage. Functionally comparable at the system level despite differing country and funding model.

Regional players

• INTI (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial): Argentina's national industrial R&D institute. Shares public-sector research DNA with CONICET NOA Sur and engages industry and government on applied projects, but is more narrowly focused on industrial metrology and standards rather than multi-disciplinary fundamental research.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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