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Name
  
Julio Rubio

Julio E. Rubio
Occupation
  
researcher, administrator

Known for
  
research in epistemology of natural science, systems theory, and sociology of technology

Education
  
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, University of Valencia

Julio E. Rubio (full name: Julio Ernesto Rubio Barrios) is a Mexican researcher and administrator at Tecnologico de Monterrey.

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Academic recognition

Rubio is a Level I member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNI).

In 2009, Rubio was accepted as a member of the National Thematic Research Network on Science, Complexity and Society, Mexico.

Education

Rubio received his PhD from the University of Valencia, Spain in 1999. He graduated cum laude, the highest distinction in Spain, for this dissertation The Construction of Scientific Knowledge: The Case for the Concept of Genetic Information (La construccion del conocimiento cientifico: el caso del concepto de informacion genetica). In this work, Rubio argues that scientific knowledge is generated by communication systems that are distinguished by codes of formalization and interpretation of reality.

Rubio earned an MA in Philosophy of Science from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Mexico. His thesis subject was Reductionism and Emergentism in the Hypercycle Theory (Reduccionismo y emergentismo en la teoria del hiperciclo).

Rubio has also earned MS in Physics from the University of Texas at El Paso. His undergraduate degree is in engineering from Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus.

Research interests and contributions

As a researcher, Rubio's fields of interest include epistemology of natural science, systems theory, and sociology of technology, generally focusing on the topics of scientific and technological innovation. He has written numerous works on these topics, including articles in both peer-reviewed and public interest journals. He has edited a book on these subjects, and is working on two more. He also wrote the prologue of the book Science, Technology and History (Ciencia, tecnologia e historia) by the scholar Javier Ordonez.

Among Rubio's contributions is the development of a system for analyzing the structure, elements and formation of public policies for science, technology and innovation, along with Ntumbua Tshipamba. According to Rubio, it is important to study these public policies as integrated systems, within the context of the triple helix of university, industry and government.

Rubio has also applied the triple helix approach to the subject of patents. According to Rubio, the lack of nationally-developed patents in Mexico is a sign of weakness and technological dependence. In order to increase the number and quality of patents developed in Mexico, Mexico must focus on building a stable knowledge society. In order to do so, it is important for Mexico to develop a national innovation system, in which business, academia and government work in concert. In particular, universities must own their role as producers of knowledge. Government also needs to increase incentives for patent production. For instance, the SNI should take patent development into account in evaluation a researcher's academic contributions. Seed funding is also essential, as patents lead to the development of new businesses, which in turn further the innovation process.

Rubio has argued that the lack of cooperation between government, academia and industry is not specific to patents production, but rather of the overall state of affairs in Mexico. According to Rubio, a dynamic economy is build on stable structures, without which optimal employment levels are impossible. As such, in Mexico, there is the paradoxical state of affairs that in Mexico these is a lack of human capital, even though trained professional are available in increasing numbers.

Rubio's book Science, Technology and Society in Mexico (Ciencia, tecnologia y sociedad en Mexico) is held by research libraries across the world, including in Mexico, Germany and Spain.

Administrative experience

Rubio is currently the director of the School of Humanities and Social Science of ITESM Campus Ciudad de Mexico. He was previously Dean of Academics of the Rectoria de la Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de Mexico (RZMCM) of Tecnologico de Monterrey and Dean of Research of the RZMCM. He has also served as head of Tecnologico de Monterrey's Mexico City and Santa Fe campuses.

Rubio has also served on the board of directors of the Mexican Council of Graduate Studies (COMEPO). More than 60 Mexican research universities are current COMEPO members, including the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) and the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN).

Books and chapters in books

  • Rubio, J. E. & Molina, A. (Eds.). (In progress). La tecnologia del siglo XXI [Technology in the 21st century].
  • Rubio, J. E. (2011). The public debate on science and technology: Transgenic corn in Mexico. In P. Kalantzis-Cope & K. Gherab Martin (Eds.), Emerging digital spaces in contemporary society: Properties of technology (pp. 198–200). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Rubio, J. E. (2010). La construccion comunicacional del concepto de informacion genetica [The communication construction of the concept of genetic information]. In J. Serrano (Ed.), Ciencia, tecnologia y sociedad. Mexico City: McGraw-Hill.
  • Rubio, J. E. (2010). Prologue. In J. Ordonez (Ed.), Ciencia, tecnologia e historia: relaciones y diferencias [Science, technology and history: connections and differences]. Mexico City: Ariel.
  • Rubio, J. E., & Ordonez Rodriguez, F. J. (Eds.) (2008). Ciencia, tecnologia y sociedad en Mexico [Science, technology and society in Mexico]. Mexico City: Miguel Angel Porrua.
  • Rubio, J. E. (2008). La sociedad mexicana ante la ciencia [Mexican society in light of science]. In J. Rubio & J. Ordonez (Eds.). Ciencia, tecnologia y sociedad en Mexico. Mexico City: Miguel Angel Porrua. ISBN 978-970-819-094-7.
  • Rubio, J. E. & Juarez, I. (2008). Redes de investigacion en Mexico [Research networks in Mexico]. In Gestion de recursos para la investigacion. Mexico City: Federation of Private Mexican Institutions of Higher Education.
  • Rubio, J. E. (2005). La organizacion social de la ciencia en Mexico [Social organization of science in Mexico]. In L. Corona Trevino & F. X. Paunero Amigo (Eds.), Ciencia, tecnologia e innovacion: algunas experiencias en America Latina y el Caribe. Girona, Spain: Universitat de Girona.
  • Rubio, J. E. (2002). La ciencia en la globalizacion [Science and globalization]. In K. M. Kamilamba (Ed.), La globalizacion vista desde la periferia. Mexico City: Miguel Angel Porrua.

    • Journal articles

  • Rubio, J. E., & Tshipamba, N. (2010). Elements of the public policy of science, technology and innovation. Canadian Social Science, 6(6), 61-80.
  • Ramirez-Alvarado, L. F., & Rubio, J. E. (2010). Culture, government and development in South Korea. Asian Culture and History, 2, 71-81.
  • Rubio, J. E. (2009). El surgimiento de la biologia molecular [The emergence of molecular biology]. Ciencia UANL, 7(3), 135-142.
  • Rubio, J. E. (2008). Public debate of science and technology: Transgenic corn in Mexico. The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge & Society, 4(3), 113-120.
  • Rubio, J. E. (2004). A systemic typology of scientific phenomena. Analecta Husserliana, 83(6), 673-700.
  • Rubio, J. E. (2003). Systems as emergent phenomena. Analecta Husserliana, 79, 845-864.
  • Rubio, J. E. (2001). Phenomenology and levels of organization in science. Analecta Husserliana, 76, 221-230.
  • Rubio, J. E. (1999). Autonomia epistemologica de los niveles de organizacion [Epistemological autonomy in levels of organization]. Ludus Vitalis, Revista de Filosofia de las Ciencias de la Vida, 7(12).
  • Rubio, J. E. (1998). Lenguaje y comunicacion en la ciencia [Language and communication in science]. Razon y Palabra, 3(12).
  • Rubio, J. E. (1997). Reduccion fisicalista del origen de la vida en la teoria del hiperciclo [Physicalist reductionism of the origin of life in the hypercycle theory]. Ludus Vitalis, Revista de Filosofia de las Ciencias de la Vida, 5(9).
  • Rubio, J. E. (1997). Aproximacion ecologica y reduccionismo genetico en el origen molecular de la vida [The ecological approach and genetic reductionism in the molecular origin of life]. Ludus Vitalis, Revista de Filosofia de las Ciencias de la Vida, special num. 2, 381-394.

    • References

    Julio E. Rubio Wikipedia
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