The review examines how higher education institutions are supporting innovation and entrepreneurship in their surrounding communities. The study focuses on eleven universities located in six countries in Latin America: Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. The study finds that...

Although since 1974, under pressure of the new trends in the world economy, public financing began gradually to lose its relative importance for Latin American countries, there seems to persist an obvious demand for bodies such as the Inter-American Development Bank. In the author's view, the...