Collaborative research culture from the perspective of higher technological education in Ecuador

Abstract

At the Admiral Illingworth Higher Technological Institute (AITEC), technological higher education in student training has insufficient understanding of collaborative research culture, insufficient methodological resources, weak research institutions in training processes, and limited responses to the needs of the environment due to the failure to use the student potential to produce knowledge. Therefore, it is proposed to design a heuristic model for the development of collaborative research culture through the diagnosis of the state of research that allows feedback to a consequent response to the needs of the environment with actions that promote participation in projects, the identification of problems, possible solutions and their transfer. The heuristic model is developed through the Governance Cube that articulates the current state with the strategic deployment for the improvement of that state, whose application demonstrates in the first phase an institutionality of collaborative research that begins to manifest itself due to the behavior of the influential factors of the resource endowment dimension, although, the second phase demonstrates the improvement in resource endowment due to the feasibility of inclusion. Thus, the heuristic model is viable for its dimensions as an effective tool for diagnosis and feedback of the state of research, also encourages participation in research of the higher education institution’s own identity in the contribution to the problems of the globalized world.