Patricia Moctezuma

Vinculacion entre instituciones educativas y unidades productivas

Based on the view of economists who have discovered a borad relationship between economic development and education, the concept of the link between educational institutes and productive units in Mexico has focused on the benefits that both could obtain from research. This approach, which links the possibilities of high-quality research to the needs of the modern sectors in the economy, has ignored the potential of the link between training professionals and the needs of the economys traditional sectors, mainly in the small business sphere, for constructing a more solid social relationship between economy and education in Mexico. A proposal for curricular reorganization based on educational practices that would complement existing ones would help to redimension the possibilities of a broader, more useful link guided by well-being and employment as the basic objectives of society and as an element for steering public policy regarding education

University and Enterprises Linkages for Regional Development in México

This article evaluates the incentives to Mexico Innovation Program (PEI), from a regional perspective based on its contribution to the Regional Innovation System (RIS) of Baja California, between 2009 and 2013. Through the both additional behavioral and networks methodologies, the decision making process at companies, and the level of linkages among them, higher education institutions and governmental actors of the RIS is analyzed. The results show that by imposing the financing of innovation projects on the linking of business and scientific actors, PEI is helping to strengthen the RIS, encouraging 15% of its interactions.

A successful institutional policy of quality postgraduates at the UABC

This paper analyzes the postgraduate institutional policy in the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) implemented since 2003. Aligning the educational model of the UABC with the parameters of the National Program of Postgraduate Quality (PNPC in spanish), the results-based budget and the matrix of indicators of the logical margin and articulating them to the maximum qualifications of national recognition granted to the full time professors at higher education institutions, its results are explained by the continuity of the policy and organizational capacity of the institutional management, which has resulted in the improvement of the quality and coverage in the postgraduate level, achieving from 2013 that 100% of its programs are recognized for their quality and the first institution of the 34 state public universities existing in the country to reach it sustainably. This policy implemented by the UABC also should be reflected in the satisfaction of graduates and employers, in the contribution in the generation of knowledge through journals high impact factor, the degree of linkage with the productive sector measured through collaboration agreements and management of resources for public-private-social projects, which will be topics for future research.

Higher Education and Social Change in Mexico

This article proposes the emergence of a revitalized concept of linkage between higher education institutions (HEIs) and society in Mexico, which relies on the labor-market perspective and entrepreneurship to produce a new supply of trained social actors to support dynamic innovation. In this context, HEIs would help to transform the labor market toward a more entrepreneurially based employment system. This article contends that a reorganization of Mexican HEIs, which incorporates flexible educational practices that complement and coexist with the traditional ones, accompanied by a permanent quality evaluation of processes, would help to build stronger and more profitable linkages between institutions and society.