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The Caribbean economies are well-ranked in terms of womens participation in the labor market, but less so in terms of innovation, suggesting the relevance of an analysis of gender diversitys impact on innovation. This paper examines how gender diversity in Caribbean firm affects the formation of external partnerships and agreements for innovation, and also how the effects of that diversity on innovative outcomes are influenced by the presence of women in diverse positions within a firm. Using information for 13 Caribbean countries from the Innovation, Firm Productivity and Gender (IFPG) database, this study confirms gender diversity as a factor which both improves the likelihood of innovation, as well as spurring the decision to collaborate with other firms and organizations. However, impacts will depend on the areas within a firm in which women are present. Gender diversity in the total workforce and in production and non-production activities is more effective than when women are present in areas solely related to management. These findings prompt a reflection on policy implications around the definition or improvement of measures oriented to the closing of innovation-related gender gaps.

Environmental education offers the knowledge for the complete understanding and the construction of the process of sustainable development, as solution to face the crisis in the global balance, like a collective responsibility, with the result that the Ministry of Education considered it as part of the individual's integral education; and in this sense, so far different seminars, events, shops and other act ivities have been developed with the purpose of disclosing the objectives and essential contents of this theme, as well as to promote in the students the interest toward the protection of the atmosphere, in those that keep in mind the historical character conditioned by the events, and epoch approaches; thereafter, the importance that the Biology professor explains the contents giving treatment to it, by means of facts that appeal to the national and local environmental problems., La educación ambiental ofrece los conocimientos para la comprensión acabada y la construcción del proceso de desarrollo sostenible, como solución para enfrentar la crisis en el equilibrio global, como una responsabilidad colectiva, de ahí que el Ministerio de Educación consideró a la misma como parte de la educación integral del individuo y en este sentido, hasta la fecha se han desarrollado diferentes seminarios, eventos, talleres y otras actividades con el fin de divulgar los objetivos y contenidos esenciales de esta temática, así como promover en los alumnos el interés hacia la protección del ambiente, en los que se tiene en cuenta el carácter histórico condicionado por los sucesos, acontecimientos y enfoques de épocas , de ahí la importancia de que el profesor de Biología explique los contenidos desde una perspectiva integradora dándole tratamiento a esta, mediante acciones que recurran a los problemas ambientales nacionales y locales.