La base de conocimiento de la industria petrolera en Venezuela y la dinámica de lo público-privado

Hebe  Vessuri; María Victoria Canino; Isabelle Sánchez-Rose

doi:10.48160/18517072re22.422

Authors

Hebe Vessuri Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
María Victoria Canino Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Isabelle Sánchez-Rose Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re22.422

Keywords:

national knowledge base, socio-cognitive sites, oil industry, public/private, knowledges

Abstract

Different from what happens in many healthy economies where a university system affords the necessary training for a qualified labor force that also carries out the basic research underpinning the industrial conglomerates of a country, in developing nations universities, traditionally hailed as the factors of development and modernization, have typically had a limited role in the innovation process. Higher education and national industry have often remained distant from each other. Thus, understanding innovation and higher education in underdeveloped contexts calls for concrete analysis and theoretical reflection. To explore these issues in some detail, this work focuses on the complex knowledge relationships within industry; the legacies of intellectual and economic elites in state power; the contrast and complementarities of different knowledge forms; and the roles of academic research. The empirical base is the Venezuelan oil industry experience. Five different socio-cognitive sites sharing a common basic universe –the oil industry–, and a common history, are analyzed. However, it is suggested that each affords only a partial view of the shared reality, being as they are an integral part of a complex universe of interactions and meaning. In view of the fact that the public and the private today play in interconnected ways, beyond higher education, with contradictory effects and implications. Hence, it is argued that a public industry that has inherited many features of the former foreign concessionary firms, and a public research apparatus that accepts the tacit knowledge dynamics of international corporate culture and the dominant technological regime runs the risk of rendering irrelevant the local knowledge base in its corporate strategy.

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