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The orientation of technological innovation and societal challenges in Latin America
(Medwell Journals, 2018)
Technological innovation needs to become more responsive to societal challenges faced by developing nations. This implies taking a closer look at how innovative projects contribute to finding solutions to pressing concerns ...
Information and Communication Technologies and Their Impact on Competitiveness in Latin America
(MIAR, 2021-01-19)
One of the biggest challenges facing countries today is how to make their economies and industries competitive in the face of significant international rivalry and a globalized environment. Countries are making considerable ...
Innovation that saves lives
(2021-02)
The quality of health care is one of the issues that highlights the great divide between advanced and less developed societies. In this chapter we present a view of the global healthcare industry, describing key indicators ...
New Middle Classes in Medium-Income Countries
(2021-02)
The world is witnessing unparalleled shifts in income distribution. How people with lower income are benefiting from improvements in their standard of living is a well-debated topic in managerial literature, not so much ...
Trendy urbanists, innovation laboratories and best practices: in pursuit of ‘progressive’ urban planning in Mexico City
(Liverpool University Press, 2022-01-01)
This research explores the role of trendy urbanists in best practice uptake within an innovation laboratory in Latin America. Trendy urbanists are the privileged professionals who aspire to be on the cutting edge of urban ...
Citizen science in Latin America and the global south, part 1
(2022-11-21)
‘Citizen science’ has become an umbrella term for a growing number of projects that introduce laypersons into the heartlands of science-making, and an extension of calls for increasing science ‘democratisation’ and ...
Bridging gaps to universal palliative care access in Chile:serious health-related suffering and the cost of expanding the package of care services
(Elsevier, 2023-03-01)
Background The Lancet Commission on Palliative Care (PC) and Pain Relief quantified the burden of serious health-related suffering (SHS), proposing an Essential Package of PC (EPPC) to narrow the global PC divide. We applied ...