Local development in Cuba from a higher education perspective

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0214
• Published date: 20 January 2023
• Date: 20 January 2023
• Pages: 214-227
• Author: Jorge Núñez Jover,Aurora Fernández González
• Subject Matter: Cuba,local development,knowledge,higher education

InternatIonal Journal of Cuban StudIeS 14.2 WInter 2022

ACADEMIC ARTICLE

LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN CUBA FROM A

HIGHER EDUCATION PERSPECTIVE

Jorge Núñez Jover1

University of Havana

Aurora Fernández González2

Adviser to the Minister of Higher Education of the Republic of Cuba

Abstract

The place of local development issues in the country’s economic and social development

model has changed drastically, especially in the last three years. Documents such as the

1 Jorge Núñez Jover is a full professor at the University of Havana. He is the director

or a member of a number academic bodies in Cuba, among which relative to the

contents of this article he is President of the Chair of Social Studies of Science and

Technology (UH), Academic Coordinator of the Network of University Management

of Knowledge and Innovation for Local Development (GUCID) in Cuba, Manager of

the Science and Society Area Committe of the Ibero-American Programme of Science

and Technology for Development (CYTED), and a member of the Executive Team

of the National Innovation Council of the Republic of Cuba. He researches, pub-

lishes and teaches in particular on the relations in Cuba between Education (particu-

larly but not only Higher Education), Science, Technology, Innovation, Society and

Territorial Development.

2 Aurora Fernández González is an Advisor to the Minister of Higher Education of the

Republic of Cuba. She is the director or a member of a number of academic bodies

in Cuba, among which relative to the contents of this article she is the Coordinator

of the University Management of Knowledge and Innovation for Local Development

(GUCID) network of the Ministry of Higher Education, Coordinator of the Science,

Technology and Innovation Programme “Higher Education and Sustainable

Development”, and a member of the Executive Team of the National Innovation

Council of the Republic of Cuba. She researches and publishes in particular on the

relations in Cuba between Education (particularly but not only Higher Education),

Science, Technology, Innovation, Society and Territorial Development.

DOI:10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0214