Social impact of the administration of knowledge in the development of a municipality
Journal Title: Trilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad - Year 2017, Vol 9, Issue 16
Abstract
the objective of the present investigation is to describe the social impacts of the administration of knowledge in the social development of a municipality, specifically in the case of Florence, Cuba. The methodology used is that of case study and the techniques are interviews with key informants and the revision of documents. Some of the main results are that the university administration of knowledge has an increasing influence in the decision-making process at the government level; the mediator instrument is the strategy of local development, with its programs that stem from the same strategy and from the main priorities of the same strategy, municipal energy administration, local production of materials of construction and production of foods; each of these levels has its own system of indicators. There are tangible advances in governmental demands to different institutions of education, the use of external and internal networks, events like that of the social sciences of the mountain and the Filial Universitaria Municipal and the media Ambiente (FUMMA), the existence of a portfolio of projects (investigation and development), and the improvement of the environmental administration with the design of the environmental rules of the municipality.
Authors and Affiliations
Niria Castillo Arzola, Julio Valentín Santana Cruz, Milagro Ramona González Villafruela
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