The economic slowdown experienced in Colombia since 1980 is explained by the structural stagnation of the national economy and the escalation of violence associated with the expansion of drug trafficking. The available data do not reject this hypothesis. The article sustains that...

The subject of development cooperation occupies a special place in the framework of the new technologies and the social economy as it involves societies at different socio-economic levels which respond very differently to the adoption and assimilation of innovations. This study focuses on new...

El artìculo se centra en los impactos sociales de la investigación y en la medición de estos. El estudio del impacto de la actividad investigativa admite distintas secciones: las múltiples definiciones de los sistemas de investigación; la evaluación de impacto de la investigación; el...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a characterization, different from the traditional ones, of developed and developing countries, in terms of science and technology. First, we identify the generating processes of the publication and patent series of the countries. Then we relate the...

This article is immerse in the debate over the determinants of countries income level convergence and states that the productive structure of a country is one of the most important of such determinants. A comparative study is performed, testing the potentiality for structural change, for Uruguay...

Este trabajo tiene por objetivo el indagar acerca de las causas que originaron cambios en la distribución de los ingresos laborales en Argentina a lo largo de la década del ’90. Numerosos trabajos para otros países parecen confirmar la tesis de que las nuevas tecnologías (o simplemente,...

This paper provides an analysis of the convergence process in the development of the telecommunication sector and evaluates its impact on market structure and policy in Telecommunication and Information Technologies (ICT), in order to identify sensitive regulatory issues and some aspects that...

Within the valuation of Science and Technology (S+T) social impact, three dimensions are specially relevant for analysis, in the modern democratic societies: Public perception, citizen participation, and S+T culture. Innovation is an economic and political subject, where the State and private...

En este escrito se estudia la implicación de condiciones suficientesy/o necesarias en un cambio estructural, comparando el proceso deindustrialización de Corea del Sur con el de Colombia. Se analizandos períodos: 1960-1990 y 1991-2007, antes y después de la apertura en ambos países. Se...

Spanish Abstract: Resultados de investigación realizada durante 2012, orientada a identificar cambios que la Ley Reguladora del Uso de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones en la Administración de Justicia (LU TIC AJ) implica para la modernización de la Administración de...