Resumen

OREGIONI, María Soledad; AVONDET, Laura  y  DURAN, María Sol. Redes de conocimiento en relación con agendas endógenas como alternativa a la tensión internacional-local¹. Cienc. docencia tecnol. [online]. 2023, n.69, pp.5-5. ISSN 1851-1716.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.33255/3469/1628.

Science and technology have gained relevance in public policy agendas to the extent that they are recognized as essential components of any strategy that seeks to face «current challenges», many of which are defined as such by the countries of the global north. Positioned from the global South, and under the understanding of the non-neutrality of knowledge, we investigate the dynamics of knowledge production and question whether the topics on the agenda respond to situated problems.

This paper shows how, based on the identification of a specific problem –the production of medical cannabis– it was possible to generate formal and informal South-South cooperation networks, made up of different actors (territorial and international) in which new dynamics of knowledge production from the convergence of different types of knowledge and actors. Specifically, the production of knowledge on medicinal cannabis at the National University of the Center of the Province of Buenos Aires (UNICEN) was analyzed as a case study.

The results of the research allow us to understand the university as a fundamental actor in the production of knowledge; and they show us how from one of its functions, extension, it is possible to create new integral dynamics of internationalization in knowledge production, highlighting the importance of South-South cooperation networks when responding to tension international-local knowledge production.

Palabras clave : international-local tension; endogenous agendas: knowledge production networks; university; medical cannabis.