The study deals with the strategy and experience of Cuba in capital goods production since the revolution in 1959. After much frustration in the 1960s, the country managed to create the base for a dynamic capital goods industry, but only subsequent to a trial-and-error process of "learning by...

It has become almost trivial to assert that in the knowledge society universities are important institutions. This consensus notwithstanding, questions like in what sense and for whom those institutions are important are far from receiving unanimous answers. Should the major function be to...