Competitive funds (CF) have become a preferred mechanism to allocate research funding, particularly in developing countries, to the point that they are the most important (and often unique) source of funds. Most analysis of CF assumes that they are an efficient instrument to allocate research...

This paper argues that in the context of the knowledge economy the coevolution of S&T and Innovation is crucial for developing countries. Two features limit such coevolution in this type of countries: (i) the conditions for generating variation, selection and retention (VSR) processes in both...

A growing body of literature is focusing on how the collaborations researchers engage in affect their productivity. Most authors have focused on linkages among academic researchers, measuring productivity by the number of papers published in ISI journals. In contrast, the impact of interactions...

The aim of this paper is to explore the nature of the R&D activities carried out by firms located in Mexico, and the type of basic research that these firms demand from the universities and R&D centers in the country. This paper is based on empirical research at the firm level and presents two...

Over the last few decades there has been an increasing concern for studying the processes of technological capability accumulation in industrial firms of developing countries. From the evolutionary economics perspective, several works have focused on analyzing the learning processes involved in...

El patrimonio cultural es el legado de nuestros antecesores, el conjunto de bienes heredados que la comunidad puede reconocer como propiedad colectiva y que son el producto de la selección que la misma comunidad o parte de ella hace con algún criterio de perduración de pautas o...