Abstract This research work is primarily aimed at Technological Surveillance as an Element for the Positioning of Public Universities. This research is characterized by being descriptive, non-experimental design of transectional-descriptive type. The population was made up of the National Open and Distance University and the University of La Guajira, the units of informants made up of the managers responsible for the technologies in the mentioned universities. For the data collection, a simple questionnaire composed of 57 items and constituted by the response alternatives was always, almost always, sometimes, never and almost never. In turn, for the validation of the data collection instrument, it was necessary to submit it to 5 an expert and to apply a reliability test through the Alpha Cronbach statistics formula, giving a result of 0.83 for the Technological Surveillance variable. An analysis of the results obtained in the research was carried out, the presence in public universities is reiterated, however, there is evidence of weakness in the activities for the positioning of the Technology Watch.