Towards a Knowledge Management proposal through innovation as a responsibility of Higher Education

Abstract

Knowledge management is a direct responsibility of the higher education institutions. UNESCO stresses this in order to guide students toward a critical and scientific thinking of the environment in which they are developed. This is the only way in which Latin American countries will progress through innovation, taking as pivots technology and creative research.

Nevertheless, it is necessary to make an extra effort so all the social doers get engaged in this process, which is an evaluation paradigm for the ideal development of people in the society. This is, to create a stronger link between university and society, with the target of achieving a higher economic and business development.

For this purpose we tackle how educational policies, through several changes both structural and social, can create a change in scientific knowledge management, the enhancement of human talent and development, being the university and its relation with the society the principal actor. It is supported that this close relation not only will contribute a better human development, but also a better intellectual capital/ social capital, which will generate better prepared nations, competitive and well developed to face the intellectual and social challenges.

Conocimiento Educactivo, Vol. 1, 2014: 35-52