Innovation policy and governance networks on national innovation systems

National innovation system - NIS became as a social construction that can be represented using social network analysis. Several countries created national agencies to administrate resources for research in order to achieve competitiveness and recently, sustainability. Research on NIS stress the importance of coordination between agencies and actors. However, policy networks as a channel to create spaces from cross-agency collaboration toward democratic participation in governance networks is one of the topics neglected in the literature, taking into account the role of the agencies devoted to managing innovation policies. This study used social network analysis to evaluate centrality measures to show the behaviour of several agencies in the definition, execution and discussion of innovation policy in Colombia, defining bargaining subsystems in terms of law, by investment of resources and by public deliberation and accountability in online social networks like Twitter, in order to contribute to a theoretical and measurement proposal of how policy networks evolve to governance in NIS.