Article in Spanish The universitary institutions and the national technology centres, have principally public economic support, and invest a significant amount of these resources in research and development projects, creating significant results with a potential industrial applicability. Until now, the public policy has followed the US model established from 1980 Bayh-Dole Act. Although the use of this scheme suppose an analysis that is not included in this article, if it is followed in the correct way, this entities must set suitable policies of intellectual property and use of the results raised from that research, using the institutions of intellectual and industrial property. In this article it is reviewed supperficially, comparing with the American experience, the elements that support the present Chilean public policy in research and development matter, as well as the contract responsibilities of the institutions with the economic support agencies, elements that make mandatory the establishment of intellectual property policy development for each University, with the main objective to kept properly the benefits of the results obtained from the execution of these projects.Las instituciones universitarias y los centros tecnológicos nacionales, con financiamiento mayoritariamente público, están invirtiendo un monto significativo de recursos en proyectos de investigación y desarrollo, generando resultados significativos y con eventual aplicación industrial. Hasta ahora, la política pública nacional ha seguido de cerca el modelo norteamericano establecido a partir de la Bayh-Dole Act de 1980. Aunque la utilización de ese esquema supone un análisis que escapa a este articulo, si ha de seguirse bien, estas entidades deben establecer adecuadas políticas de apropiabilidad y explotación de los resultados de esa investigación, usando a tal efecto los institutos de la propiedad intelectual e industrial. En este artículo se revisan someramente a la luz de la experiencia norteamericana, los elementos que fundan la actual política pública chilena en materia de investigación y desarrollo, así como las obligaciones contractuales de las instituciones con las agencias de fomento, elementos que hacen imperativo para las universidades establecer su propia política de apropiabilidad, a fin de que capturen debidamente los beneficios de los resultados derivados de la ejecución de esos proyectos.Article in Spanish The universitary institutions and the national technology centres, have principally public economic support, and invest a significant amount of these resources in research and development projects, creating significant results with a potential industrial applicability. Until now, the public policy has followed the US model established from 1980 Bayh-Dole Act. Although the use of this scheme suppose an analysis that is not included in this article, if it is followed in the correct way, this entities must set suitable policies of intellectual property and use of the results raised from that research, using the institutions of intellectual and industrial property. In this article it is reviewed supperficially, comparing with the American experience, the elements that support the present Chilean public policy in research and development matter, as well as the contract responsibilities of the institutions with the economic support agencies, elements that make mandatory the establishment of intellectual property policy development for each University, with the main objective to kept properly the benefits of the results obtained from the execution of these projects.