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Many countries in Latin America have made nanotechnology a development priority in their public policy platforms. The main feature of these public policies is to provide support for nanotechnology research and development, aiming to forge ties between public institutions and universities and the private sector, to boost innovation and competitiveness. These public policies do not take into account the global context of strong capital concentration in which nanotechnologies emerge, and which makes it difficult to be competitive within the framework laid out by these public policies to develop these technologies. This paper analyzes the direction of public policy in the international context, and also suggests policy alternatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a general overview of the relationship between education and R&D in Latin America and Costa Rica during the last 30 years. A general introduction to the characteristics and development of science and technology in the region and an overview of the level and progress of educational research are presented. The implications of the education-R&D relationship for the widening of the productivity gap and the digital divide in the context of globalization and the knowledge and information society are analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Analyzing the evolution of UFR interpretations in Latin America, the paper shows how TH debilitated the interpretation that had been dominant until the end of the 1980s, and how the debate in course between these two present positions tends to progress. By offering a standard for critical analysis of the changes in the explanatory and normative-institutional models of Science and Technology Policy in advanced and peripheric countries, Triple Helix Statement can inform new interpretations more adherent to the democratization scenario that is being constructed in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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