Indicadores de vinculación con el entorno para Unidades de Gestión de Investigación. (Universidad de Antioquia – SIU. Estudio Piloto 2004-2016)

This ​report​, based on the Valencia's Manual,​ shows performance indicators of the units that manage the generation, dissemination and application of scientific knowledge, in the perspectives of institutional capacities for linking and their effective linkage with the academic and non-academic environment. Some of the main categories employees have been the visibility of the production, the consistency in the publication of scientific knowledge, academic collaboration, the formation of new researchers and the multiple ways of linking with the environment. The indicators seek to know the performance of the strategy for the creation of the Research Headquarters for the University of Antioquia-SIU- not in terms of adequate infrastructure to the needs of scientific research, but of its differential impact on production, generation of collaboration and projects interdisciplinary and their relationship with the environment. This report allows us to make a general description of the main contributions of the SIU in this matter and the compare with other similar experiences, which will allow you to travel a route to a model of future evaluation of the link with the environment.