Valor del conocimiento y modelos de ciencia nacional: el caso de México, Honduras y Argentina

Abstract

This article analyzes and reflects on the role that three countries in the north, center and south of America give to knowledge The theorist that is derived from the Latin America thought in science, technology and innovation and the politicized social science and knowledge mobilization concepts developed by Naidorf and others authors. It is presented an outline of the value of knowledge as an organizing principle and axis of social change, from the value of the University as a public space and reflects on a national science based on a State model. The analysis from a descriptive, comparative and proactive approach is presented from the indicators proposed by Oscar Varsavsky for the orientation of a national science model. Concluding, that the knowledge production must generate alternative models of science in the face of palpable and latent inequalities in Latin America.