UNIVERSITIES AS A SCIENTIFIC POTENTIAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Abstract

This study of a documentary nature,has as its purpose to analyze the university potentialities and the legal nexuses that these have with the intellectual property. This referential framework has made it possible to show that the development of the countries is subject, to a large extent, to the production of science and technology that their universities generate, which has determined the existence of two marked groups of higher education institutions, those that , belonging mostly to the economically and technologically developed nations,are the main actors of such progress for their production of knowledge and those, being mostly part of the developing countries, are weak when generatingscience and technology; which implies a scarce contribution to the abandonment of the underdevelopment that these nations seek with determination, emphasizing that in these universities they are characterized by the lack of regulations that regulate the management of knowledge and the absence of structures to transfer this knowledge. In the determination of these two groups of absolutely heterogeneous universities, at a global level, it is established that intellectual property plays an important role in the incentive of innovation processes and in the protection and exploitation of their intellectual creations.