Plenary: The Construction of "Local Theory" in the Technology Development Process with Social Impact

Frequently, questions such as the following arise: how is knowledge about technological development produced? Which is the new knowledge given to the world by technological advancement? The production of knowledge is inherent to the activity of scientific-technological research. Doing research, development and innovation means contributing to the creation of theory, formulating objectives based on it, and analyzing its results so they contribute to understanding the studied issues and their solutions. This work claims that, in the process of developing technology, the Theoretical Framework arises from the integration of a Reference Framework with Local Theory. The identity characteristics of each of these elements are analyzed and the process of creating cognitive innovations goes hand in hand with the development of new technology and it supports technological development with possibilities of effective social impact, which necessarily implies the production of specific knowledge.