Micro, small and medium-sized state businesses as a university-society interface

Abstract

Bringing knowledge closer to society in order to solve the many problems that regional development demands in Cuba is both essential and mandatory according to the state's highest leadership, as a way to achieve that prosperous and sustainable progress everyone seek. Hence, universities have a leading role due to their primary knowledge, so it is up to them to generate ideas that allow the transmission of this knowledge to others. The objective was establishing the feasibility of this form of state businesses in Cuban universities as an interface between the university and society, through the results achieved by the first Cuban medium-sized company from the University of Pinar de Río. In order to achieve this objective, theoretical and empirical methods were used, as well as associated techniques such as documentary analysis, customer satisfaction interviews and statistical data. The main results show the growth in the number of scientific-technical services, their diversification and the economic results generated, which demonstrates the viability of this type of interface structures in Cuban universities.