Este artículo presenta un modelo para la producción de nuevo conocimiento sobre la relación endógena de actividades docentes y actividades investigativas. La descripción teórica del modelo expone los rendimientos a escala en función de una curva de aprendizaje. En esta, la existencia de...

Th is article provides evidence on the economic and social importance of the oil sector in Iraq. Existing literature allows to understand the background, context and institutional framework that regulate the oil sector, the main implications and limitations for its development, and the impacts...

Este artículo analiza los efectos de los Derechos de Propiedad Intelectual (DPI) sobre el crecimiento económico de los países, donde una mayor protección incentiva procesos de innovación que inciden sobre el mayor avance de la producción. En el desarrollo analítico del trabajo se toma...

This paper provides an introduction on the most relevant theories and types of regional integration on one hand and the most important methodologies to assess the net economic growth effects of the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) between countries on the other. The first section briefly describes a...

El presente documento discute la importancia de los principios de pluralismo crítico, responsabilidad, primun non nocere y precaución, en un esquema de reflexión ética de la economía como ciencia y como técnica. Para tal efecto se realiza un análisis institucional de políticas, normas y...

During its history, humanity has had to face, research, and overcome innumerable infectious diseases, many of them in the range of epidemic and pandemic. There exist data about multiple influenza epidemics, such as the one that spread through Mesopotamia and South Asia around 1200 BC, until the...

Colombia is a multicultural and multiethnic country, surrounded by two oceans, with thousands of paramos, lagoons, and rivers born in a complex geography created by three mountain range systems. A territory that, from its highest points to its plains and jungles—like the Darién Gap or the...

After four years of negotiations between the Colombian government and the guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP for its acronym in Spanish), from Havana, Cuba, on August 24, 2016, representatives of Cuba and Norway, guarantor countries, together with...