The Technological Innovation Park, TECNiCAFÉ, is a public-private, non-profit corporation of a transnational nature, unique in the world, created since October 2015, made up in a mixed manner by the institutional representatives of the Colombian State – Government of Cauca – , of the Sectoral entities – Federation of Coffee Growers -, private companies committed to knowledge management and innovation management for adding value to coffee, such as Supracafé, Multiscan Technologies and the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI by its acronym in English) and the producing communities, such as the Association of Women Coffee Growers of Cauca AMUCC.

TECNiCAFÉ manages knowledge, promotes entrepreneurship, technological development, productive and social innovation and the transfer of knowledge and technology for the production and marketing of quality, high-value coffees for the world’s coffee community.

Through technological validations, developments and innovations that have been co-created with entrepreneurs and the transfer of knowledge aimed at more than 60,000 people, actors in the value chain, TECNiCAFÉ promotes the comprehensive use of the resources of the coffee ecosystem, providing coffee growing tools that promote articulation with scientific communities to establish business initiatives that contribute to closing social and technological gaps in coffee growing.