Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

This article presents the integrated curriculum as a reference point implemented in the innovative tradition since the beginning of the 20th century, an alternative that -although a minority compared to the conventional disciplinary model- can be found in multiple attempts at educational change, reform and innovation at very different times in our recent educational history. Its presence in the so-called "emerging pedagogies" corroborates its dynamism and actuality. The level of relation established between subjects as well as the wide range of strategies described in this work express how different subjects, knowledge, and purposes can be accommodated in a curricular model that is defined by its flexibility, functional intention, and participation. In an illustrative sense, different models and practical sequences are described and explained, but which in essence share a pedagogical background that characterizes them and differentiates them from other proposals more concerned with the mechanical and academic transmission of school knowledge.

The article presents a reflection on the role of education in the face of the Sustainable Development Goals as defined in the 2030 Agenda, through Education for Sustainable Development. Starting with a reflection on the challenges that globalization brought to culture and education on the late twentieth century, we analyse how the cosmopolitan project was interrupted and reflect on the need to re-ignite it, incorporating the challenges that “cyber-convivencia” brings in.  Research on bullying and cyberbullying has led us to highlight the importance of deepening our attention to moral sensitivity and social competence, to make schoolchildren and young people aware of the value of pro-sociality and altruism so that they can develop criteria to incorporate the Sustainable Goals.

This article is a historical review of part of my ethnographic research, emphasizing some contributions and theoretical topics that turn out to be very productive in order to understand the social construction of science knowledge at the classrooms, specially at basic education in Mexico. Those topics include argumentation, reasoning and explaining that are developed among the discursive interaction of teachers and students. Consensus construction and the power students develop through the discursive interaction at the classroom complement this work. Within more recent studies the articulation of the ethnographic perspective with the analytical tools provide by a conversational analysis approach allowed me to show the students’ as active participants developing an identity as knowledgeable and communicatively competent collaborators to social knowledge construction at the educational practices. Contributions of recent research topics as peer interaction in undergraduate students of physics are also described. A final reflection about actual international educational orientations and their negative impact on school education is state.

Some significant absences are pointed out in the article about the way in which the theory has been confronting the curriculum, with special emphasis on what happened in the Spanish context. The political history of the curriculum, the look from cultural studies, the production of the regimes of truth in the curriculum, the lack of problematization of the modern narratives that inspire and impregnate the curriculum production or the opportunity to consider the city as a curriculum are some of the aspects that are discussed.

Rapid technological developments make firms favor the creation of new approaches to corporate entrepreneurship and technology management. One approach, corporate-startup collaboration has reached a new level in the 21st Century and many different models currently exist as a result. However, research on how to evaluate the effects of those collaboration models is limited, and in some cases, non-existent. The purpose of this paper is to test if an analytical framework developed for measuring the results from corporate-startup co-location, also could be useful for measuring the results of other types of corporate-startup collaboration models. The framework is tested through the lens of the corporation and the collaboration unit. The empirical study includes 10 cases, representing five different corporate-startup models. The finding was that the analytical framework is useful in planning, analyzing and follow- up the results of many different corporate-startup collaboration models.

University-industry relations are an important factor for industrial innovation. However, the results of these relationships for the firms remain largely unmeasured. Moreover, the contribution of different types of interactions to firm innovativeness is known mainly in theoretical terms.  Departing from a secondary data of Brazilian university-industry interaction survey, also known as “BR survey”, this study employs crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (csQCA) to identify how five types of University-industry interactions - training-oriented, service-oriented, diffusion-oriented, development-oriented, and research-oriented - combine to produce high innovation output. The results show that the most complex interactions - development-oriented and research-oriented - are the only types of interactions that alone lead the firm to high innovativeness. In contrast, less complex interactions alone are not enough to make the firm innovate beyond the “new-to-the-firm” level and need to be complemented by more complex interaction.

The purpose of this study is to understand innovation of startups operating in a niche market.  Through a review of previous research works, a conceptual model and propositions are developed, where illustration of a company case is used to exemplify this model. It reveals that a research gap exists regarding startups in a niche market with dynamic capabilities and breakthrough innovations as a source of success. This study reflects on the potential relationship between dynamic capabilities and breakthrough innovation of a startup and its subsequent effect on the performance of the startup in a niche market. It has proposed that dynamic capabilities work as a foundation for startup to develop a breakthrough innovation. It also proposed that in a niche market, both core competency and industrial network are crucial for a startup to scaleup, where breakthrough innovation works as a pathway to acquire consumer acceptance.

In developing economies, little is invested in research and development. Therefore, it is proposed that lower-tech firms develop their absorptive capacity and be linked through market and institutional networks to achieve technological innovation persistence. This study uses a multinomial logistics model applied to a sample of Peruvian manufacturing firms, concluding that there is an impact on product and process innovation persistence. Thus, executives can emphasize organizational innovation and absorptive capacity as means to achieve product innovation in developing countries. Moreover, firms should to prioritize the relationships with the market and institutions to achieve a better good or service.

     This article aims to construct and validate an instrument for measuring the factors of organizational culture that influence cooperation in technological innovation between research institutes and firms, nominated “Evaluation of Organizational Culture for Cooperation in Technological Innovation (EOC-CTI)”, applied to the reality of Brazilian organizations. The sample was composed of 324 respondents from 58 large and medium firms and 41 public and private research institutes, from various locations in Brazil. The method adopted was the Exploratory Factor Analysis. Among the main contributions, an instrument that expands the discussions about the values and management practices for cooperation in technological innovation based on organizational culture is proposed. For firms and research institutes, there is the proposition of values and systematic management practices that contribute to the achievement of results through cooperation in technological innovation.

Innovation is considered as one of the main elements of a company success. In recent years, it has assumed a relevant role also in the food industry that was generally defined as a rather mature and slow-going sector. The aim of this paper is to analyse the innovation models applied to the food industry and to carry out a systematic review of the literature. In particular, we overview the most relevant innovation models and identify the main thematic areas discussed in the period from 2016 to 2020. We also provide recommendations for future research directions.