Technical support in soil conservation programs. Case of San Juan parish, Mérida

Abstract

Production processes involve the application of a set of efficient and effective knowledge for the production of goods and services. Such knowledge is called technology, understood as the ordered set of knowledge used in the production and marketing of products and services. It is made up not only of scientific knowledge (codified knowledge) from the exact, natural, social, human sciences, among others, but also empirical knowledge (tacit knowledge) such as that generated from observations, essays, written or oral tradition, or they are developed thanks to some specific aptitude (intuition, manual dexterity, common sense, among others). In this way, innovation - in the form of advanced technology - is the result of combining two types of knowledge: codified or formal and uncodified or tacit (Fisher, 2001), so not all technology is a product of scientific research. technique.