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Marianela Lafuente

Engineer and Philosophy graduate, professor at the Central University of Venezuela, with a Doctor’s Degree in Insa, France.

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“Knowledge is Power”

Science and technology for endogenous development

by Marianela Lafuente , Carlos Genatios

Caracas (Venezuela) | 8 September 2005

Modernity brought the idea that progress goes hand in hand with technological advances, closely linked with scientific activity. The search for knowledge is not a “neutral” activity. Far from the image of the platonic value of knowledge as something good or beautiful “per se”, contemporary (...)