Postgraduate Schools in Developing Countries

Abstract

The increasing gap between developed and developing countries can be effectively addressed by coordinated north-south cooperation only. The development pace is slow in countries with low budgets for science and technology investment. To tackle a lack of government support, human talent (critical mass), infrastructure, internationalization, financial resources and low designated time for research activities, a research ecosystem needs to be built using the better practices of the developed world in a participative environment, both in science/technology as well as in a partnership with the world markets. While developed countries introduce new science/technology products, the developing countries are the consumers of it and a larger leakage of low GDP resources is incurred, increasing the gap. In this work we introduce a cooperation model that sets up what is to be intended a new postgraduate school, which is based on intensive research using what we call the extended Sábato's approach. This model looks for the creation of a new development framework that, nowadays, is successfully used by developed countries. We look to create new development based on global market niches, bringing local technology companies to existence. We expect this approach to be instantiated at the Bolivian Universities with international cooperation, trying to solve our NP-Completeness issue.