Francisco Javier Carrillo Gamboa
[7] While working for his BSc degree, he received the influence of Francisco Cabrer, Joanne Moller, Herminia Casanova, and Luis Castro from the Faculty of Psychology at UNAM.
in Experimental Analysis of Behavior at UNAM, where he received the influence of Florente López, Emilio Ribes, Joao Claudio Todorov, John E. R. Staddon, Franciska Feekes, Víctor Colotla, Hank Davis, Jerry Hogan, Paul Henry and Juan J. Sánchez-Sosa.
However, the contrasting views of Imre lakatos, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and others vested at several fori,[10][11] opened alternative avenues later enriched by several individual and organizations through the UK and Europe at large.
He worked under the joint supervision of Paul Black Head of the Assessment of Performance Unit of the UK Department of Education and Science[12] and Joan Bliss, a disciple of Jean Piaget.
Willing to comply with the commitment to serve at a Public centre upon returning to Mexico after completing his Ph.D. partially with a CONACyT studentship, he accepted an invitation from Universidad de Guadalajara’s Departamento de Investigación Científica y Superación Académica (DICSA) to develop a research performance assessment unit for the same time as the duration of his studentship, i.e., two and a half years.
He was also a guest external member of about 20 graduate dissertation committees in universities in the Americas, Europe, and Australia.
[15][14] Further engagements while at Tecnológico de Monterrey include Director of the Pascal Centre for Latin America[16] and Head of the CEMEX-ITESM Research Chair.
[26][27] He created in 2004 the World Capital Institute (WCI) as a think-tank consolidating the global community of knowledge-based development.
[34][35][36][37] “As the emphasis shifted from KM to KBD among some members of the KM and IC communities, the WCI arose from an initial concept: the accountability of major entities (governments, corporations, and international agencies) by the net value (assets minus liabilities) they provide to the world in terms of total tangible and intangible capital.
Recently, it has extended KBD to the areas of alternative economic cultures, knowledge for the Anthropocene and city preparedness for the climate crisis”.
[38] By the end of 2018 Javier and Rosa María moved to Querétaro City, where they continue engaged in several professional and civic programs.
[43] While working for his MSc at UNAM, he became aware of the reflexivity between the Methodology of Research in Experimental Psychology and the Behavioural dimensions of Scientific Practice.
Similarly, the post-normal science approach led by Jerome Ravetz[50][51] contextualized knowledge in a VUCA world.
Rather than encroaching upon the later, empirical epistemology has contributed to the understanding of knowledge by furthering philosophical inquiry with new realizations and perspectives.
Similarly, alignment between knowledge objects, agents and contexts is enabled through KM by identifying the relevant dimensions of each and making sure these correspond”.
The removal of the process capacity of any element will result in meaning and value dilution, for it will no longer be knowledge and will become useless.
[63] Based on these concepts Carrillo and his colleagues at CKS developed a comprehensive knowledge management processes guidelines and strategy.
Each holds a negative (liability) or positive (asset) sign relative to the direction in which it operates on the whole system.
[68] In “What Knowledge Based Development Stands for”[33] Carrillo summarized the critical analysis of this movement in the following terms: Drawing on these proposals and advancements, KBD can be defined as: the collective identification and enhancement of the value set whose dynamic balance furthers the viability and transcendence of a given community.” This perspective enables a sensible pursue of human social improvement without resource to the biophysical unviability of indefinite economic growth or the lost currency of the development neocolonial ideology.
It becomes the possibility -well documented in numerous and diverse settings- to redefine social value exchange beyond the restrictive dogmas of economic liberalism.
Knowledge markets are value transaction system where the quantity, quality, and terms of interactions amongst agents are determined primordially by the dynamic properties of intellectual capital.
This concept involves the following demarcation criteria: As Carrillo personally and the WCI at large shifted focus by adding to the original KBD and Knowledge Cities topics an emphasis on Alternative Economic Thinking and Doing as well as on Knowledge for the Anthropocene and on City Preparedness for the Climate Crisis.
[70][71] In the Foreword to the former, Noel Castree captures the challenge: “But the ‘wickedness’ of the Anthropocene problem, the variety of possible means and ends required to ‘fix’ it, and the inertia caused by those favouring the status quo will make action very slow, very fragmented, and highly contested.
This book seeks to answer these large and very important questions.”[72] Regarding City Preparedness, Carrillo summarized the circumstance in the Introduction to the later: “In order to responsibly face the environmental conditions of the Anthropocene as these unfold, we must closely examine the axiological and conceptual foundations of our cities and question their environmental economic, cultural, and political underpinnings.
Chapters highlight the notion that unless a knowledge-based value creation and distribution paradigm is globally adopted, the possibilities for integration between a sustainable biosphere and a viable economy are small.”[72]
