Jose Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz got his first degree on Economic Planning at the University of Havana in Cuba and his PhD in Science and Technology Research Studies from SPRU, University of Sussex. During 1990 and 1991 Alexandre Vera-Cruz was associated researcher of the Technological Innovation Centre at the UNAM, Mexico. From 1991 he joined the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Campus Xochimilco in Mexico City as a researcher and professor of the Master and PhD programs in Economics and Management of Innovation. He was director of studies of that program from 2000 to 2004. He is member of the Mexican National System of Researchers; and regular member of the Mexican Academy of Science. He is member of the Strategy and Government Board of the University of Cape Verde, Africa. His PhD thesis hold awards in Mexico first as a thesis and after as a book. His research is focused on technological capability accumulation in developing countries firms, organizational culture and learning, and the impact of innovation policy on agents behaviour. He has published several articles, book chapters and books on these topics. Currently he is leading a research project on Sectoral System of Innovation in the Mexican agriculture, jointly funded by SAGARPA and CONACYT, respectively the Mexican Secretary of Agriculture and the Mexican S&T agency.
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