There is growing recognition that innovation plays a key role in enhancing competitiveness and enable emerging economies catch up with rich countries. In this sense, Mexico needs to strengthen its national innovation system (NIS) in order to create wealth and reduce poverty and inequality. This...

Este informe presenta un análisis en profundidad del sistema español de innovación y de su estado actual en relación con la transferencia de conocimiento y la colaboración entre ciencia y empresa en España. El estudio identifica cinco áreas prioritarias de reforma e inversión a largo...

Spanish Abstract: La brecha laboral entre mujeres y hombres es persistente. Las diferencias en remuneraciones y liderazgos exteriorizan órdenes estructurales de corte patriarcal que rigen el desenvolvimiento de cada gremio, siempre en sintonía con su entorno público y privado. El trabajo...

The promises and risks associated with the development of big data technologies are exacerbated by the global viral pandemic known as COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, or coronaviruses. From an organizational point of view, a series of debates arise that, although in principle antagonistic, have outcomes in...

The metal-working and aluminium industries are widely known as basic industries since their supply feed into a number of of other economic activities producing final goods. Additionally, these industries are classified as heavy industries since they require a substantial capital investment per...

The promises and risks associated with the development of big data technologies are exacerbated by the global viral pandemic known as COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, or coronaviruses. From an organizational point of view, a series of debates arise that, although in principle antagonistic, have outcomes in...

The article aims at providing an overview regarding the diffusion of ICT in Latin American firms, and the main policies to promote it. It shows how the use of these technologies is characterized by substantial differences in the case of relatively smaller firms, as well as in economic sectors...

The technological innovation processes play an important role as a constitutive element of territorial development, a concept that intends to bring together the economic dimension (economic development), the social dimension (social development), the environmental dimension (sustainable...

El objetivo de este capítulo es crear las bases de unos indicadores y métodos de evaluación que logren la adecuada medición de cómo la investigación ha logrado transformar los procesos productivos, interviniendo en procesos de innovación. Para ello se describen distintos enfoques...

The information society reflects an effect of the increasing expansion of the globalisation that determines a general increase in the speed of the Internet. Internetwork World Wide Web represents the synthesis or the core of the global society. The UN and the World Summit of the Information...