The accelerated transformation of society, economy, and culture as an outcome of
technological change does not occur homogeneously in the contemporary world. The …

La comunidad científica (o la profesión académica) es uno de los actores clave en la
dinámica global y local de la I+ D y afecta enormemente el desempeño de las sociedades …

Since man first forged metal tools and started farming for his food, thus emerging from the
Stone Age, no event in human history has had a greater impact than the Industrial …

New experiences and observations, strange enough to awaken our attention, are emerging
and accumulating in our time. They range from societal tremors and spreading poverty to the …

The article examines the tendency towards the formation ofa bipolar configuration of the
global technological space in the context of thefourth industrial revolution. The article …

Our modern world is to a great extent explained, shaped and driven by natural sciences
(hereafter, science) and technology, and everything indicates that science and technology …

This study presents different theories of the evolution of science to explain how science and
its scientific fields evolve over the course of time. In particular, this study clarifies, as far as …

Linking the words ''science,''''technology,''and ''innovation,''may suggest that we know more
about how these activities are related than we really do. This very common linkage implicitly …

In any given country, every person and society as a whole wants to live in prosperity and
material independence. It is unlikely that anyone will doubt that most of the inhabitants of the …

In the previous chapter, we explored the first driver of innovation: the permanent quest for
building faster, cheaper, and better in order to save time and money and create greater …