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CHAUCA MALASQUEZ, Pablo Manuel. Papel de la universidad pública mexicana en el desarrollo local: la importancia de las actividades de investigación. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2008, vol.3, n.6, pp.58-89. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2008.6.195.

The article tries about the paper of the Mexican public university, in the animation and promotion of the local development. Understanding the local development how integral process based on the advantage of the resources and endogenous potentialities with the participation of diverse social actors, it is maintained that the public university is a key actor of the local development, mainly by its importance in the advance of the human capacities of the population and in the formation and qualification of the local human resources. Throughout the text it is discussed about how transforming the teaching activities, investigation and entailment of the Mexican public university, way so that its capacity is developed to learn and to interact with its immediate surroundings. It is argued that the activities of investigation based on transdisciplinar and surrounded knowledge are the angular stone for the transformations in the other core activities of the Mexican public university.

Palavras-chave : local development; human development; transdisciplinary; surrounded knowledge.