La investigación en las instituciones de educación superior: Vinculación con el sector gobierno e industria (1981-2011)

Abstract

The goal of this research is to analyze the link between government entities and the industrial sector through research (published articles) generated jointly with researchers who have belonged to the National System of Researchers (SNI) in area VII (Engineering) at least one year and are attached to an HEI in Mexico in public and private sector. This study used a series of data from the Science and Social Sciences Ciatation Index developed by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) (ISI, 2012) today Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge and correspond to two decades of Mexican scientific research. Based on this information, a database of publications and citations of all scientific articles that have at least one author with an address in Mexico, published in the period from 1981 to 2011, was prepared. The results of this research show that of the 26758 articles published by researchers during the study period, only 8% of HEI research is generated jointly with government entities while the tiny amount of 1.2% is generated in collaboration with the business sector and 80% is generated between the same HEIs or with international institutions.