En este artículo se analiza un proyecto de programa para la formación del talento humano especializado en investigación científica y tecnológica en el Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), con el fin de establecer una estrategia de trayectoria articulada de incorporación de alumnos formados en actividades y proyectos de investigación, al Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI), luego de su graduación a nivel posgrado del IPN.In this paper a program to set up a human talent management for scientific research and technological development in the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico (IPN) is proposed, seeking to integrate graduate students from the IPN into the National Researchers System (SNI, Spanish acronym). Clearly, for Institutions of Higher Education in Mexico, incorporating their researchers to the SNI favors not only the scientific and technological productivity of the institution, but also allows the incorporation and consolidation their academic programs at the National Quality Graduate Program (PNPC, Spanish acronym), sponsored by the National Counsil for Science and Technology (CONACyT, Spanish acronym).