Resumen

CONTRERAS, José J; OCHOA ARIAS, Alejandro  y  PILONIETA BLANCO, Claudia. Del fracaso del desarrollo al desarrollo endógeno sustentable: La nueva Organización de Desarrollo Regional. Revista Venezolana de Gerencia [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.37, pp.27-49. ISSN 1315-9984.

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to an ongoing debate over the failure of the techno-economic development paradigm in Venezuela and its implications in Regional Development organizations. The article begins with a brief outline of the techno-economic paradigm of development and the failure of its implementation in Venezuela. The failure is understood as a cultural catastrophe in Venezuela which reached its crisis at the end of the twentieth century. As a contrasting possibility, an alternative notion of development, based on the promotion of endogenous concepts and sustainability as primary notions upon which to create and recreate local culture with a national and universal sense and that can be developed under the Constitution of the Venezuelan Bolivarian constitution.

Palabras clave : Development; endogenous development; regional development organization; education; participative democracy; values in Venezuelan society.