Abstract

ESTRADA MOTA, Ivett Liliana  and  RAMIREZ GARCIA, Rosalba Genoveva. Builders of scientific institutions: the role of leadership in the creation of Cinvestav Merida. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2021, vol.43, n.173, pp.128-145.  Epub Feb 14, 2022. ISSN 0185-2698.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iisue.24486167e.2021.173.59768.

This paper analyzes the role of leadership in the establishment of scientific institutions in the context of the decentralization of scientific capacities carried out throughout the late 1970s. In order to do this, we examine the convergence of three leaderships whose actions contributed to the establishment of a scientific project in southeastern Mexico: the creation of the Merida Unit of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV by its acronym in Spanish), in 1980. This was one of the first scientific research centers ever established in Yucatán and it is focused on the attention to relevant social problems within the region. The analysis sets off from the perspective of the social studies of science, the processes of institutionalization of scientific fields and various notions surrounding leadership. Furthermore, it is based on journalistic sources, research and documents on the national, local and institutional contexts, the policies for scientific decentralization and the trajectories of the leaders involved in the project.

Keywords : Institutionalization of scientific fields; Institution builders; Distributed leadership; Scientific decentralization; Regional development; Research centers.

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