Manifiesto por las métricas socioterritoriales de la ciencia la tecnología y la innovación - Manifesto for Socio-territorial Science, Technology and Innovation Metrics - Manifesto por Métricas Socioterritoriais de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
Year: 2024
Type: other
Abstract: Science, technology and innovation have become a driving force for transformations of all kinds at local and global scales. However, globally unequally distributed resources —such as money, people, infrastructure, among others— have generated disproportionate developments. This is not only a problem of science itself, but also of the way in which societies have developed, the relationships between them, and the role that science and technology have played in the dynamics and development of societies. \nToday, in addition to the problems of asymmetries, inequality, exclusion and marginalization, there are pandemics, forced migrations, extractivism and the visible effects of climate change as a generator of local and global transformations and disasters, for which science and technology play a central role in their understanding, mitigation, prevention and solution. Thus, capacity strengthening strategies with knowledge of the local and global distribution of resources for science, technology and innovation, are essential for action in the contemporary world. \nIn this context, a transformation in science seems to be taking place. The formation of networks, the demand for impact, research through and in virtual and simulated worlds, together with the growing movement for access and open and citizen science, are accompanied by permanent institutional adjustments and redesigns, policy changes, new priorities, instruments and a growing tendency to align, for example, to the Sustainable Development Goals. \nIn this context, efforts to know, understand and manage science, technology and innovation, through metrics and forms of scientific evaluation, continue to focus on traditional forms and on citation impact metrics which respond to forms of evaluation, financing and spending in transnational publication systems. Local, national and global movements for the opening up of science and its evaluation are increasingly active, and permeate science, technology and innovation policies. \nWe propose that, in these efforts, we should incorporate a set of principles that allow us to construct metrics and forms of evaluation that consider the characteristics, requirements and socio-territorial demands that should inspire and contextualize our capacity strengthening efforts and initiatives.
Authors: Cancino, Ronald, Albis Salas, Nadia, Villarroel Valenzuela, Jacqueline, Robles Belmont, Eduardo, Oliveira, Thaiane, Ràfols, Ismael, Palacios Núñez, Guadalupe, Ortiz Núñez, Roelvis, Flores Vargas, Xochitl, Restrepo Fernández, María Camila, Guillermo Levin, Luciano, Mascarenhas e Silva, Fábio, Barata, Germana, Vélez Cuartas, Gabriel, Lucio Arias, Diana, Mugnaini, Rogerio, Uribe-Tirado, Alejandro
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7002206637