Presentation

Abstract

In this era of globalization and neoliberalism, it is obvious that in developing countries like ours, the systematic carrying out of scientific research and technological development and innovation activities are the central axis for their prosperity, however for our society we still do not the potential social significance of science and technology is clear.

It is at this point where Sancarlist researchers can demonstrate to their social environment that their knowledge is not only the one that can offer them better solutions, but also that science bears its best fruits in a society that has understood and assumed it as a reflection critical and necessary to see and know the world.

Currently, the basis of technology is the processing of information, its storage and flow, causing the knowledge involved in any technological product to greatly increase its value, making the knowledge-technology binomial the most expensive and scarcest good in the globalized economy. .

In this context, the academic sector requires an adequate systematization and rationalization of the management required to select and plan topics of research, development and technological innovation to be transferred to the productive sector and to the social sectors that receive this knowledge, trying to ensure a certain possibility of management success.

For this, it is urgent to promote the participation of the academic community with the sectors of our socioeconomic structure, in order to achieve a more solid integration of education and research with the social, scientific, technological and productive perspectives, and the optimal functioning of the model. institutional educational, based on the relevance between the contents of plans and programs and the requirements of national development.

Guatemalan society urgently needs new ideas, proposals, and alternatives that allow it to travel along a sustainable path of growth and development, not only in the face of the poor conditions of existence of important sectors of its population, but also in the face of the expectations and hopes of the rest of society to ethically improve their quality of life.