Measuring the Impact of Science, Technology, and Innovation in Cuba
Analysis of an Experience
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https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-852Keywords:
economy, cuban society, innovation, integral development, R&D social impactAbstract
This paper focuses on Cuba’s experience in developing the management of the impact of science, technology and innovation, factors of first order when it comes to addressing major imbalances and structural problems of the Cuban economy today. This article distinguishes seven main destinations of the impact, divided into four main impact sources (three potential and real). It explains the work developed in the country under the leadership of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (CITMA), based on the Nomenclature of Goods and Services with added value by the S+T+i, mainly carried out in the economic dimension. It also raises ideas on how to address the social dimension of the impact on the Nomenclature. That is the reason why this article suggests the reorientation of the measurement of impact towards productive goods, services and social services, in order to allow higher standards of living in relation to food, housing, drinking water, etc., together with the constant elevation of the levels already achieved in education, health and general culture.
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