DESARROLLO PRODUCTIVO VS INNOVACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA EN LA AGROINDUSTRIA AZUCARERA. CIENFUEGOS ESTUDIO DE CASO PERÍODO 1980-2005.

The paper Productive Development vs. Technological Innovation in Sugar Agroindustry. Cienfuegos Case Study 1980-2005 period, was aimed assessing the innovative processes behavior that was carried out in the sugar production in Cienfuegos province from 1980-2005. A non-experimental explanatory research was structured using as main methods the documents analysis and structured interview to different people who were working in this industry while the study was conducted. The introduction of scientific results became sensitive. As a result, the list of the main introduced result, and the institutional behavior in this process was obtained. In conclusion, the lack of a business vision about the transformative role of the use of science and knowledge, as well as the lack of an objective analysis of the reasons and purposes of the scientific results to be introduced were evident; so was the absence of well-founded demands for the introduction of science and technology. In addition, the lack of objectivity showed by users when providing reference and remuneration to scientific results, which are discarded without a rigorous analysis of what the reasons were, was also appreciated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]