The School of Social Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos invited me to participate in a panel on the epistemological foundations of science and technology policies, in which I shared the podium with Nicolás Lynch, Eduardo Ísmodes and Marta Valdivia un June
In july 2018 I received officially the Robert K. Merton Award, created to honor the memory of the distinguished academic who was one of the pioneers of the sociology of science and technology. The prize was delivered by his widow, the leading sociologist Dr. Harriet
The triennial UN Development Cooperation Forum was held in New York in May 2018. I participated in one of the side events, which focused on how to support cooperation to achieve climate change agreement objectives, as well as the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The notes
In August 2018 the Fondo de Cultura económica launched two books written by the leading Mexican researcher Dr. Carlos Chimal, Futurama and Fábrica de Colores.I had the opportunity to comment on these books during the presentation, and my notes for the event are available (in
At the request of the UNESCO Regional Office for Latin America I prepared a policy brief proposing the creation of a “Regional Program on Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean” which was presented at the CILAC meeting in Panama in
During all of 2018 I continued to collaborate in the organization of the Partido Morado, in which I am a member of the Political Committee. In addition, I became National Secretary of Program Strategy and Government Plans, as was indicated in the documentation submitted to
My dear friend and mentor, Helio Jaguaribe, died in September 2018. I had the privilege of meeting him and learn from his erudition and wisdom during several decades, and to maintain a close friendship with his daughter Anna María. I prepared a note on Helio,
In October 2014 we launched the second edition of PERÚ: Agenda y Estrategia para el Siglo 21 (“Development Strategies for the 21st Century: The case of Peru”), the final report of the Agenda: PERÚ program. The event had two parts, the first devoted to examine
Together with Mario Bazan we published a chapter on the book on inclusive innovation edited by Gabriela Dutrenit and Judith Sutz. This chapter examines innovation and social inclusion policies in Perú and is available here . Mario Bazan and other colleagues at FORO Nacional Internacional
In November 2014 I participated in the OEI conference in Buenos Aires. The session I was involved in focused on science and technology policies, and was chaired by Mario Albornoz, the Director of the Iberoamerican Network of Science and Technology Indicators (RICyT), with the participation