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| Author(s): |
Carolina Bagattolli
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências |
| Defense date: | 2013-04-18 |
| Examining board members: |
Renato Peixoto Dagnino;
Léa Maria Leme Strini Velho;
Marcos Barbosa de Oliveira;
Noela Invernizzi Castillo;
Rafael de Brito Dias
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| Advisor: | Renato Peixoto Dagnino; Benoit Godin |
| Abstract | |
Science & Technology (S&T) have been increasingly understood as fundamental for development, and innovation currently the privileged process around the world. Changes in economic theory began to draw attention to the relationship between economic growth and technological innovation, with the conviction that innovation would be able to generate increasing returns to entrepreneur productivity instead of constant returns expected by the previous theories that consider only capital and labor as factors of production. This evaluation led to the promotion of technological innovation business became considered as a goal to be achieved through the adoption of active public policies, especially by the Science and Technology Policy (STP). It is the assumption of "inovationism" as a policy model. Brazil is not oblivious to this trend. In recent decades fostering innovation has been receiving increasing attention within the Brazilian STP. That, from the 1990s and on, becomes increasingly in an "innovation policy". To this end, support mechanisms have been reformulated and new ones were created. The Federal effort is also reflected in the public expenditure in this area, which has grown significantly recently. However, analysis of the available evidence allows us to evaluate the policy currently as ineffective, since its objective of increasing business R & D and, therefore, its technological dynamism, has not been accomplished. To explain the discrepancy between the expected results and those obtained this thesis presents an analysis of the Brazilian STP not as a simple attempt to reproduce the policy models implemented in advanced countries - a view that, while simplistic, is still quite common - but as result of a continuous process of feedback between the hegemonic role of the research community in this sphere of social life, the dominant view of science - impregnated by several myths about the relationship between S & T and society - and by elements derivate from our peripheral condition. It is this complex process that determines the orientation of the PCT currently underway and their lack of effectiveness (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/02530-1 - Scientific and Technological Policy in Brasil Myths and Models in a Peripherical Country |
| Grantee: | Carolina Bagattolli |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |