Little has been investigated about Science Diplomacy (SD) in emerging economies, more specifically on governance schemes useful for organizing intersecting actors, practices, conceptions and suggestions of the future in foreign affairs and Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in public administration sectors. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the “texture and nature” of SD initiatives in emerging economies through the eyes of relevant actors involved or reflecting about them in Colombia. The aim of this paper is to propose a general governance scheme for SD in emerging economies and its potential instrumentation for a policy-mix. In Colombia, SD initiatives are very fragmented, and are not part of the priorities of the Colombian state, however the increasing interest of an embryonic practitioner and scholar community working in the topic make necessary this work. A phenomenological perspective combined with a single case study research methodology is used to gain a very accurate description of the state of the situation of SD in Colombia. Policy document review and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 relevant actors to understand the conceptions, practices, and suggestions for the future of SD in Colombia. The study results show that SD actors in Colombia are scattered, practices strongly related to traditional cooperation diplomatic activities and the need to give a function to SD for capacity building, better global intermediation and the development of new knowledge, in particular promoting SD abilities in the scientific community. In addition, data expresses the need to cultivate a multi-stakeholder working group for such a purpose. The study reflects on the need of a policy mix for SD in emerging economies. It proposes a general governance scheme for it, a potential instrumentation founded on research participant future suggestions, and a set of practical recommendations and policy implications. Conclusions and further research questions are set, pointing out the importance of including non-conventional diplomacy actors and knowledge, and the need to inquire rationales behind possible SD policy mixes in the southern world.

Making sense of 'innovation' as a noun is a continuous and everlasting challenge for scholars. The evolution of the concept has been marked by contestation and appropriation dynamics that derive in the emergence of adjectives and surnames for the term (see Godin, 2015;Godin& Vinck, 2017;Gaglio, Godin & Pfotenhauer, 2019). One of such new types (surnames) of innovations is transformative innovation, which is commonly associated with either sustainability transitions and/or

La diplomacia científica (DC) se consolida como una propuesta ecléctica y de frontera entre la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación (CTI), por un lado, y las Relaciones Internacionales y la política exterior, por el otro. ¿Cómo se articulan las políticas del sector ciencia y tecnología, y relaciones internacionales en Colombia en torno a la diplomacia científica? A partir de un análisis exploratorio y de naturaleza cualitativa-descriptiva de documentos de política pública en el período 2018-2022, se identifican las acciones de dc que Colombia ha implementado. Concluimos que se han dado pasos importantes y acelerados, pero persisten desafíos en materia de articulación y consolidación de la DC como una estrategia efectiva que facilite la consecución de objetivos tanto para el sector CTI, como de Relaciones Internacionales. Este artículo señala las bases conceptuales para comprender de manera situada la dc, algunas de sus críticas, y ubica la experiencia colombiana en perspectiva comparada con la de Brasil, México y Chile.

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