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The article reviews the main projects supported by Conacyt during the government of Luis Echeverria Álvarez (1970-196), both with its own resources and with those of international cooperation. On the other hand, it also reviews the scientific articles published during the same period that were considered relevant in the indexes of the site Web of Science. Today, those indexes are taken into account as a relevant indicator of scientific work in Mexico. Finally the information about the projects and the articles are crossed to test the hypothesis of our research: the institutionalization process of the science system in Mexico started in 1970 allowed us to organize, support and promote scientific research in the country. allowing the rise of relevant papers published. The objective is to show the impact that the new institution had on the dynamics of scientific work at national and international level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Different approaches remark the importance of the relationship between economic growth and the implementation of science, technology, and innovation programs within the design and evaluation of public policies. Therefore, this paper addresses said relationship from the concept, methodology, regulations, and implementation process of Colombian policy regarding science, technology, and innovation, highlighting the contribution made by the National Apprenticeship Service (SENA) to the development of related programs. The contributions made by the SENNOVA strategy, created by SENA, as an institutional response to national regulations on science and technology and the allocation of resources are also reported in this work. We concluded that SENNOVA is a multiplying agent of technological, social, and collective appropriation given its role in transferring the knowledge generated in the projects from different programmatic lines of science, technology, and innovation to professional training and the productive sector, thus contributing to the reduction of technological gaps in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The approach of law to science and technology's conflicts is not an easy task. Its answers to the problem have often been to assume the emerging social relations, to regulate normatively or to recognize judicially those relations as well as to introduce new axiological principles through their own normative (ie, legal or judicial, in terms of the structure of the various legal systems). This phenomenon has been more exceptional and usually comes from a bioethical reflection. Much has been written about the concept of bioethics and its incardination within applied ethics. However, very little progress has been made in shaping biolaw as a legal discipline. At most, it has been assumed as a mere terminological update of the classic term "medical law" or "sanitary law", even without distinguishing well both concepts from each other. However, biolaw is more than that, and so it must be understood. It does not correspond solely and exclusively to the set of norms dealing with issues related to the life sciences, but it goes further. Thus, this paper is a proposal for the foundation of biolaw as an autonomous juridical discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

this paper analyzes the first two attempts at the creation of science and technology policy in Ecuador from the role of various stakeholders: scientists, politicians, and industry. The institutionalization of this policy first emerged in 1973 as part of the "nationalist and revolutionary" military dictatorship of Rodriguez Lara, and as part of the proposed import substitution industrialization (ISI) in response to the oil boom. The second attempt took place during the return to democracy in 1979 and was based on the enactment of the Law on the National System of Science and Technology and on the creation of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. This paper discusses the narrative of the events rather than the cause. It examines social macro processes through the lens of various stakeholders (political and economic national conditions and international influences). Furthermore, the definition and implementation of policies is explained via political cultures; implicit and explicit scientific technology Policy; and technological scientific paradigms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks for new innovative concepts and theories to improve in development's planning knowledge, it's sustained in the lecture and analysis of new innovative development fields papers to make order and interrelate them for building a new structural base to stand a contemporary economic and social development science that be able to introduce and embody spatial and regional analysis, it tries to point out the strategic place played today by world cities, the migration flows and science and technology in the development and integration of countries, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the causes of the alienation of youth for environmental, in a District Educational Institution, from the perspective of approaches Science, Technology, Society and Environment CTSA, Questions social scientific CSC, as well as the impact of School Projects Environmental. This analysis was conducted from a sample of data obtained through non-participant observation grids, applied to students. The research is part of a broader Group Project Teaching and Learning of Physics of the University Francisco José de Caldas, and is emerging as a qualitative research due to the characteristics of the variables to be analyzed (demonstrations, attitudes) without analyzing the data statistically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Science, technology and innovation are fundamental to economic and social development of the country, requiring, each time more, to give significant resources in order to prepare the personnel and make them more competitive, where the information exchange, knowledge and learning generated by this process, will contribute to achieve a better performance in the organization. The purpose of this paper is the development of a organizational learning model and its phases, based on information and knowledge of scientific and innovation project team members, which will allow to evaluate the capacity of organizational learning and also contribute to a better organization performance. In this model is highlighted the integration of the main trends in the study of organizational learning, providing technical tools to develop learning ability and performance evaluation of the organization from indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research at the university is not only responsible for the research training of future professionals but it also should intervene in solving problems at social, business, community and group levels. This paper discusses this reality and analyzes the actions that link social participation in science and technology with the research training for university students. The literature review was aimed at finding scientific texts and unpublished research that address the issue from the science, technology and society (STS) perspective. Among the main results it is possible to find students scientific research initiatives, science and technology advisory agencies, as well as knowledge transfer activities, which allows us to come to the conclusion that there is a link between research and participatory processes through different modes of knowledge construction at the university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to create a methodological approach to promote environmental education in students of Agronomy, from the Chemistry discipline. It was used the simulated cases methodology with focus science, technology, environment and society (STES). The proposal was implemented for three courses and its results helped students show greater appreciation of the study of Chemistry. This proposal help to the responsibility and commitment of students to the search for possible solutions to social and environmental issues, with arguments from Chemistry's content and consistent with the social, cultural and political context in which these problems manifest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the appearance, in recent decades, of so-called knowledge-based economies, there have been various explanatory proposals or theoretical frameworks for understanding them. In this paper we aim to ponder, within a humanistic outlook, various concepts introduced by thinkers like Dominique Foray, from economic theory, Javier Echeverría, from philosophy of science, Manuel Castells, from sociology, and Edgar Morin, from the perspective of complex thinking. Situating human at the center of the equation, we want to approach the problem of knowledge and their meanings. To that end, this essay begins with a consideration on different conceptions of knowledge and the role that it has taken in the new society, continues with an analysis of the relations between the new economy and the idea of integral human development, and ends by outlining the application of the principles of Morin's complex thought as a proposal to articulate different perspectives on knowledge and the global society to which we belong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the appearance, in recent decades, of so-called knowledge-based economies, there have been various explanatory proposals or theoretical frameworks for understanding them. In this paper we aim to ponder, within a humanistic outlook, various concepts introduced by thinkers like Dominique Foray, from economic theory, Javier Echeverría, from philosophy of science, Manuel Castells, from sociology, and Edgar Morin, from the perspective of complex thinking. Situating human at the center of the equation, we want to approach the problem of knowledge and their meanings. To that end, this essay begins with a consideration on different conceptions of knowledge and the role that it has taken in the new society, continues with an analysis of the relations between the new economy and the idea of integral human development, and ends by outlining the application of the principles of Morin's complex thought as a proposal to articulate different perspectives on knowledge and the global society to which we belong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper condenses the results of an inter-institutional discussion that began in 2011 within the National University of San Juan (UNSJ). This discussion was about the advisability of creating an interdisciplinary instance, in order to debate about Public Communication of Science and Technology (CPCyT). At the beginning some questions are posed, related to the links between education and CPCyT, the CPCyT anthropological and teleological foundations, the CPCyT as an interdisciplinary field and the notions of science and public communication involved in the CPCyT. We offer some possible answers to the questions posed. Finally we present the Project of a "Program of Public Communication of Science and Technology", to be developed at the San Juan University, its objectives and actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Society and culture at the planetary level suffered major transformations during the twentieth century, particularly in the second half, largely because of the impressive degree of scientific and technological development. Forms of economic production also experienced profound changes, so much so that the greatest wealth, from an economic standpoint, now is generated by so-called knowledge-based production systems. The concept of a knowledge society has been forged to refer to these phenomena. Nevertheless, it is a fact that science and technology have brought about major changes, thereby making it urgent to develop strategies to strengthen the culture of science and technology throughout Latin America. The aforementioned concepts are discussed in this paper, along with possible strategies for bolstering the culture of science and technology. The authors also contend that a suitable model for a knowledge society in the Latin American countries should consider their broad and rich cultural diversity, which poses additional challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To speak of interculturalness bears to understand and to recognize the existence of different cultures in the search of dialogues and encounters of knowledge from the existence and evolution of a global world in the perspective of finding new interaction spaces to leave the scientific and technological appropriation.; For it this proposal points to Determine the existent relationships among CyT and cultural diversity and the list that complete for the development of the sociocultural groups besides the identification of the paper of the education in CyT in the intercultural education - knowledge, valuation and statement of the ethnic identity and of the knowledge of technologies taken place by other human groups. This document leaves then of a clear conceptualization around the intercultural education and of the principal elements of the scientific and technological knowledge and it concludes with the necessary orientations to energize the scientific and technological education from the diversity culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we will reflect on the science-technology and society relation through a particular case: participation HIV affected people in public spaces. We work on four cases of public interventions of different activist groups and NGO. We analyze the implications of this interventions on knowledge construction, on the relation of science and society and on the democratization of the policy. We based this work on bibliography material, secondary sources and interviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, based upon the policy statements in science and technology in our country which are established in the Special Program of Science and Technology, PECyT (2001-2006), carries out an analysis of the instrumentation levels on these statements. It reviews, in a central way, three dimensions which are: the financing for these activities emphasizing in the total investment in science and technology, the percentage of the GDP that the government destines to these activities and the percentage of the same GDP for researching and development. The main element for the impulse of this sector is the training on human resources, where it emphasizes the promotion to the graduate studies and the consolidation of the National System of Researchers (SNI). The main objective of a science and technology sector is to improve the competitiveness of the country, then our preoccupation focuses to review the productivity of the Mexican researchers; the behavior of the international index of competitiveness, the place that Mexico is able to reach, and finally, a revision of the technological payments balance of our country is made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is no doubt that we live in an increasingly influenced science and technology society. This paper shows the concepts of science and technology and the relationships between them. In the first part we make an approach to science and technology meanings, discussing them from a systemic perspective of their practices. Going beyond technical aspects we also include social, cultural and personal dimensions. In the second part we analysed with detail, the complex relationships between science and technology through five theoretical models, illustrated with several historic examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]