CHALLENGES OF SCIENTIFIC CATEGORIZATION TO CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CUBA

The most precious resource of a nation is its human potential and to promote its social economic policy, it is necessary to guarantee educational and scientific training with the highest quality from an early age. In the current historical moment, Cuban science and scientists have new challenges and responsibilities. Therefore, the certification of professional skills as a researcher is a necessity to increase the impact of the results, since it implies strengthening the capacity for analysis and problem solving with science and innovation. In order to know the challenges to encourage the process of scientific categorization, an analysis of the general aspects of the process is carried out, which includes the challenges and projections from the implementation of science, technology and innovation policies that seek to recover the growth of the categorized human potential and its retention, strengthen the science-economy connection, stimulate scientific productivity and the articulation of all the actors of the system in all sectors and territories, as part of the updating of the economic and social development model until the 2030.