Empower your organization through unique incentives

Becoming an affiliated entity of Ciudad del Saber strengthens innovative projects by granting them tax, immigration, and academic benefit

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Tax benefits that boost your business or project through tax exemption:

  • Sales Tax (ITBM) applicable to the affiliated operation.
  • Import tax on machinery, equipment, artifacts, systems that are key to guaranteeing the affiliated operation.
  • Tax on money sent abroad when the transaction is carried out to satisfy the needs of the project.
  • Income tax generated by the project.

Let’s accelerate together the economic growth of Panama and the Region, through innovative projects, companies, and academic programs that promote social change and sustainable development.

Migratory and labor benefits that enhance your business or project, through temporary visas for qualified employees and their families:

  • Professors: International academic programs affiliated to Ciudad del Saber can attract foreign professors to reinforce the affiliated academic operation.
  • International students enrolled in the affiliated programs at Ciudad del Saber can have special visas that facilitate their stay in Panama while studying.
  • Researchers: Professionals of scientific, social and technological research with centers affiliated to Ciudad del Saber can have special visas that facilitate their temporary stay in the country.
  • Executives and technicians: Specialized executive and technical personnel with clearly differentiated profiles, will have access to a special visa that facilitates their stay in Panama.

Let’s accelerate together the economic growth of Panama and the Region by attracting the best and most talented professionals to transfer knowledge to the national workforce and develop innovative projects, companies and academic programs that promote social change and sustainable development.

At Ciudad del Saber we promote the creation and grant concessions for the installation on our campus of high quality and prestigious international academic programs of higher education. For this, we have our own legal framework that facilitates:

  • Use of your accreditation of origin: International academic programs, innovative and highly differentiated from the national offer, will be able to establish their academic operation in the country using the accreditation of their country of origin without the need for national accreditation.
  • Special visas: the programs may attract to Panama professors, researchers, as well as executives with differentiated profiles that are essential for the development of their academic project. Additionally, international students may also facilitate their study visas.
  • Access and collaboration: as an area of innovation dedicated to the transfer of knowledge, Ciudad del Saber facilitates the connection with the national university environment.
  • Physical installation: we have multiple options for physical installation on our campus, both at the administrative headquarters level and in classrooms.

Let us promote the growth of Panama and the Region together by reinforcing the national higher education offer through innovative, and differentiated, academic programs of high international prestige to foster social change and sustainable development.

At Ciudad del Saber, we foster cooperation and promote inter-institutional relations that allow us to consolidate ourselves as an innovative community that promotes social change through science, humanism, and business.

For this, we put at the service of our affiliated companies, academic programs, and organizations a network that allows them to connect with key players in the public, private and intergovernmental sectors of Panama.

Let’s accelerate together the growth of Panama and the Region by generating the necessary connections to promote and scale innovative projects, companies, and academic programs to generate social change and stimulate sustainable development.

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+200

affiliated
members

+400

million dollars
of impact in the
national economy

+100

companies with
an R+D focus

+70

million invested in
R&D between
2018 and 2019

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Advantages of establishing your company within Ciudad del Saber

Legislation

Entities that meet certain requirements and carry out the Affiliation process, have the additional advantage of receiving tax and migratory incentives granted to Ciudad del Saber by special legislation to promote research, innovation and the transfer of knowledge and technology.

The campus

The campus has a unique infrastructure and certified sustainable architecture. Rental spaces include a large auditorium, conference rooms, an athenaeum, lecture / meeting spaces and classrooms, all equipped with state-of-the-art technology.

Location

Centrally located, on the banks of the Panama Canal, 15 minutes from downtown Panama City, 5 minutes from the Amador tourist complex and 45 minutes from Colon City, located on the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal.

Exchange

Constant exchange of knowledge and experience between different actors from the business, academic, scientific and creative sectors, as well as NGOs and international organizations, favoring innovation, collaboration and knowledge transfer, forming a broad local and global network of allies.

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Affiliation process

Application

Evaluation

Due Diligence

Final Approval

Admission criteria

The Ciudad del Saber Foundation contemplates admission criteria of general validity for all entities, projects or academic programs that apply to integrate to the complex. There are also additional and specific criteria referring to International Organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations. Entities whose activity coincides with several of the following characteristics have a high potential of becoming affiliated entities:

  • Your entity is part of one of these sectors: Technology, Science, Government, NGOs and International Organizations, Education, Creative Industries and Culture.
  • If the mission of your entity is to generate social change, and the beneficiaries of your programs or projects are part of vulnerable groups in the country or Region.
  • You have a job creation plan in the short, middle, and long term.
  • You have a sustainability report or are developing it.
  • You have a plan to establish alliances with other members of our community.
  • If your application is accepted, you will make our campus your main operation base.
  • Your entity is part of a relevant cluster in the country or the Region.
  • Your products or services are unique and difficult to copy.
  • To develop your activity, you need the support of Ciudad del Saber.
  • You have registered one or more patents.

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