The formation of collective intelligence and the University

Abstract

The formation of a collective intelligence has to do with scientific and university policies, but it is something more than that: it is the definition of the cultural model of development of a country. Since the mid-1970s, theories and programs designed to apply the university and scientific capacities in the resolution of society's problems have been formulated in Latin America. Personalities such as Celso Furtado, Amílcar Herrera, Oscar Varsavsky and Jorge Sábato, were precursors of a new paradigm that we can identify as Mode 3 of Knowledge Production, that is, an approach that supports the need to articulate teaching, research and education. Application of useful knowledge to the country. This paper presents the characteristics of this Mode 3, based on the formation of a collective intelligence in which South American University plays a key role