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Agrarian Extension is subject to a wide range of interpretations, some complementary, others contradictory. An Agrarian Extension System is characterized by its approach, the objective and the place that each participant occupies in the extension practice. In addition, it conditions the work of the participatory extensionist he could be specialized or generalist, in correspondence with the participatory or vertical approach. Cuban information and experiences were reviewed, with the objective of knowing how some generalist and participatory paradigms are manifested in agricultural extension practices developed in Cuba. The analysis showed that it is currently accepted that, in order to achieve an important transformation of the agrarian and rural environment, the action of all the actors that affect agriculture must be promoted and considers this as an integral system. Despite the fact that generalist and participatory extension practices have existed, and do exist, in Cuba, at the present they are not integrally generalized in the country's agriculture system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The article addresses to problem of evaluate productions growth possibilities in chemical industry. A heuristic procedure is proposed that includes possibilities of a new investment or modernizing and intensifying an existing installation evaluation. Specifically, the possible solution for sulfuric acid production is analyzed, in which the existence of an industrial facility in Matanzas province, Cuba, founded in the 1940s plays a key role. Objective: To apply an elaborated strategy to increase the availability of a chemical product with minimal investment expenses on scientifically founded bases. Materials and Methods: A methodology is proposed that is applicable to the country problem solution. The methodology consists of several stages that allow: problem determination, problem magnitude measurement, chemical products mesh definition, technological study, plants to satisfy needs of these products' existence or not, as well as the need to modify them or to make new investments and to carry out the investment technical economic study. Results and Discussion: The studied process of Matanzas' sulfuric acid plant is a typical case in which an installation modernization is required. The proposed methodology is applicable to evaluate alternatives for chemical industry development. Conclusions: The proposed methodology is applicable to evaluate alternatives for chemical industry development. The studied process in Matanzas' sulfuric acid plant is a typical case in which an installation modernization is required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There exist different sources that produce the new scientific and technological knowledge. We may highlight among them research in basic, social and applied sciences carried out by universities and other research centers. Transference of technology is one of the key activities carried out by universities nowadays and which favorably influence on the economic and social development of the communities and of the country. The present paper exhibits the study made, using as the main informative source the results obtained through a survey applied to a group of Colombian universities. These surveys collect information on different aspects with the aim to identify the situation of the offices of technologies transference, or similar structures in Colombian Universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cuba coexist in many and varied forms of extension with the mission of contributing to the development of competitive and sustainable forms of production, which is an objective of working in the field of economic and social development. Based on this concept, the overall objective of this research was to analyze some of the extension forms that exist in Cuba. The critical analysis of the theoretical foundations correctly identified the lack of an agricultural extension model according to the needs of Cuban agriculture, for which suggests a reciprocal training process, which helps to acquire the knowledge to understand why and how the use and management of extension forms practiced in the country. Research centers in the country, extension perform different actions that respond to various programs and projects, but responsiveness still fails to solve the problems that arise in the manufacturing sector according to their requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The transference of technologies of the university to the sugar industry the Cuban is indented to lift the levels of production and of services of the society present-day and he calls for bigger integration of knowledge for it. The developed investigation comes from the transactional descriptive, patterned factfinding type integrated by techniques like the analysis of semantic contents, based in Kockelmans valuation method, 1975. They expose the benefits that come from the transference of technologies of the university to the sugar industry focused to the Valuable Nets like a jump to the society of knowledge. The Cuban, sharing resources gets for herself the construction of theoretic definitions that help to understand and to appraise the importance of the use of Valuable Nets like mechanism that contributes to the integration of knowledge among the university and sugar industry and to complement him mutually to obtain competitive advantages, and contributing to the bringing up to date of the economic model Cuban, pass mark during the 6to Congress of Party Communist of Cuba. Finally, the Model of valuable Nets that permits his materialization, the general procedure are offered, and a sign of results obtained with his application to depart of the technological transference that University of Holguin "Oscar Lucero Moya" to enterprise sugar mill "Jesus Rabbi" of the municipality of Calimete at Matanzas province. It is been able to describe the influence that exercises the Valuable Nets in the transference of technologies in present-day achievements attained by this enterprise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Los cambios acontecidos en la agricultura cubana a finales del siglo XX provocaron la ruptura del paradigma basado en la dependencia de importaciones, por lo que se precisó comenzar a construir un nuevo modelo técnico-económico sobre la base del desarrollo endógeno, asociado al fomento de capacidades innovadoras y de tecnologías sostenibles; ello exigió que los centros de desarrollo de conocimiento se centraran en la aplicación de innovaciones, mediante adecuados procesos de extensión rural. En este sentido, la Estación Experimental "Indio Hatuey" concentró los esfuerzos en el fomento de los procesos de innovación en la ganadería cubana, que fueron potenciados a inicios de la primera década del actual milenio cuando se dio un giro en el sistema convencional de transferencia tecnológica para fomentar la innovación y el desarrollo local rural. Ejemplos destacados de la aplicación de este enfoque son: el Programa de Desarrollo Agropecuario en el municipio Martí, el fortalecimiento de los procesos de innovación agropecuaria local y de fomento de sistemas locales de innovación en el sector cooperativo y campesino de la provincia de Matanzas, así como la producción integrada de alimentos y energía sobre bases agroecológicas en cinco provincias cubanas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the analysis of industrial property management in the context of joint ventures in Cuba, as the main form of foreign investment. We describe the assumptions that can come into this business, on industrial property. The different scenarios are addressed from the doctrinal, legislative perspectives and enriched with the author's assessment criteria based on practical experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technology transfer is common today in most of the technological processes in developed and developing sub. The implementation of mechanisms for technology transfer in the fermentation process is performed with a high risk in their implementation, given the degree of uncertainty that run, which causes the effectiveness of it is reduced by a large percent. This work establishes a methodology to implement technology transfer, considering the uncertainty in fermentation processes allow us to establish properly the way to run this activity with a reduced risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work gives the experience about the modifications made to the strategy for technology transfer of a chemical process, in order to assimilate technologies for biogas production with energetic purpose, turning it into a tool specifically for the latter and considering new elements, such as the environmental impact expected, that strengthen the basic strategy. From here were developed, based on the heuristic strategy, one technology proposal to produce biogas for energy purposes from the waste available in the sugar industry sceneries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of biopharmaceutical products and processes needs the integrated application of regulations, the achievement of quality standards, high qualified people, multidisciplinary teams, the use of high technology and the application of technological transference from the research until the scale-up of productive process. In this sense, the adoption of the quality management is required starting in the R&D stages. This paper focuses in these topics ISO 9001:2000, Good Manufacturing Practices and technology management designed and applied in a Cuban biopharmaceutical enterprise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The results are presented from the evaluation of management capabilities in the technology transfer as a strategy for the resizing of the sugar enterprise "Argeo Martinez", in Guantánamo province. The article suggests some ideas and solutions that should be developed in the future to improve the present results. The causes of the management capabilities main alteration, in the technology transfer process for the enterprise resizing, are identified, through the diagnose instruments and multicriteria analisis. It also presents the management deficiencies that hinder a major socioeconomic impact of the incorporated technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, a series of criteria is exposed and premises, that are due to consider to establish a technology of production of Bioetanol from bagasse and solid wastes of Santa Clara city. In addition the fundamental stages of the process that guarantee the fulfillment of the pre-selected targets for each one of them, in agreement with the characterization made to the solid wastes of this city is set. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to obtain a competitive development of the Cuban Chemical Industry it is of vital importance of considering the application of the Analysis of Processes in the assimilation of new technologies that allow the power sustentables companies to consolidate of technological form and environmentally compatible. In the work is described a work methodology, with the help of the tools of the Analysis of Processes, that allows to include the main aspects to evaluate for the assimilation of new technologies like result of the technological development in the industry of chemical processes; the same one can perfectly be applicable to other industrial processes, as the case of the Sugar Industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]