Centros de Ciencia en Colombia: Intercambio y transferencia de conocimiento para la comunicación social de la ciencia y el fomento de la cultura científica

Abstract

Our interest in this research is based on the continuous search for certainties that lead us to have relevant and significant knowledge about the role of Science Centers and Museums that are communicators of science, technology and innovation in society. For example: Maloka, Science and Game, Explora, Botanical Garden of Medellín, Botanical Garden of Bogotá, Museum of Natural Sciences Federico Carlos Lehmann in Cali and Neomundo in Bucaramanga, etc. that knowledge management practices can be used for the exchange and transfer of specific knowledge with citizens, as one of the ways for the social communication of science and the promotion of a scientific culture. The importance of the existence of Science and Technology Centers and Museums is because from their origins they have a greater educational vocation thanks to the availability of multiple resources that arouses an experimental attitude in the visitor. From the focus of central knowledge management, our attention is focused on exchange and transfer strategies as ways to communicate science and promote scientific culture. The exchange of knowledge, seen from the development of the attitude, the will, the understanding and the interest to learn from Science. Knowledge transfer is a process of exchange, both tacit and explicit, that can occur between two agents, and during which one of them receives and uses the knowledge provided by the other. Finally, we wish to observe the incidence of the above strategies in the communication strategy of specific knowledge and in the promotion of scientific culture in citizens who visit science centers and museums. The importance of a study in these science centers and museums lies in the fact that Colombia is in third place in that they have an educational, scientific and cultural potential of this kind, after countries like Mexico and Brazil. Similarly, the scarcity of studies in this regard that presents evidence to have a knowledge of reality.