LÍNEAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN E INNOVACIÓN PARA LA GESTIÓN DEL CONOCIMIENTO EN RED: EL CASO RIIED-IPN

Abstract

The Educational Innovation and Research Network of Instituto Politécnico Nacional (RIIED-IPN) was founded in 2015 and for its development as a thematic network it had to establish lines of work through a study whose question asked What are the thematic areas of the work lines for educational innovation and research that RIIED-IPN will promote? This paper aims to describe how lines related to thematic areas in which members produce and apply knowledge in order to manage it to promote educational innovation and research emerged. Its alignment considered identification of needs from public policies and trends of international and national organizations, and institutional instances. It is based on conception about a thematic network, work line and, in an eclectic approach, juncture is found to explain intellectual capital from the theory of social cybernetics of systemic administration, as well as learning and collective intelligence in organizations from complexity paradigm to manage knowledge in collaborative networks, where the public space is the key to solution of great challenges of 21st century. The qualitative exploratory study used two documentary samples by direct observation and considered two phases: pre-analysis to obtain preliminary categories and content analysis that resulted in 18 categories whose data were processed in Atlas.ti, Vosviewer and yEd. These results supported choice of work lines currently operating in RIIED-IPN and it is concluded that the thematic areas are aligned to needs and characteristics of context so that the nodes work of expert’s network is relevant to reality in different fields of innovation and research of education in Mexico.