Changing Times at Cuban Universities: Looking into the Transition towards a Social, Entrepreneurial and Innovative Organization

Since the 1990s, the socialist higher education system has faced several reforms oriented to satisfy the social, economic, and technological demands. However, little is known about the transformation process of the socialist university system over the past two decades. This study provides a better understanding of the entrepreneurial and innovative transition of universities located in socialist economies. By adopting mixed theoretical approaches, we proposed a conceptual model to understand the social, the innovative and the entrepreneurial transformation of socialist universities. We revised/tested this model in the context of the Cuban University by implementing a prospective case study approach. Our findings show insights about the transition towards a business model innovation within the Cuban university. The determinants have been the state regulations, the closing of the complete cycle from teaching to the commercialization of results and the creation of hybrid structures to manage knowledge. Consequently, the university is facing managerial challenges related to its ability to explore/exploit its activities to generate social, innovative and economic outcomes. Our results provide practical implications for the university managers and actors involved in the transformation process of the Cuban Universit

Evaluation of catering the system based on a balance of supply and demand in an aqueduct veredal the cabin of the municipality of zipacon Cundinamarca

El presente artículo se realizó identificado las necesidades de una comunidad, en pro de la preservación y cambio de la mentalidad cultural que los recursos naturales son infinitos y se autorregulan por si mismos. Bajo esta consigna se realizó un estudio para la identificación de la oferta y la demanda en un acueducto veredal de la cabaña municipio de zipacon.The present article was identified the needs of a community, for the preservation and change of the cultural mentality that natural resources are infinite and self-regulate by themselves. Under this slogan was carried out a study for the identification of supply and demand in a veredal aqueduct of the village of zipacon